Curator Quotes

I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public. Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Partner Build See Catalyst Generator Builder Accompanying Motivator Curator Artist While Public Sparring Creating Show Bridge
I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Life Me My Life Out Point Smithsonian Still Years Curator Plan Means Figure Twenty
It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this. Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Kid Would Obscure Knew Curator Quite Want Then Notion Even
I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate. Iris Apfel
Good Great Me Jazz Everything Once Way Draws Component Dress Because Said Mix Cultures Up Curator Improvisation Different Different Cultures Decorate Elements Things Museum
I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things. Jason Silva
Happy Amazing Also Well Amazing Things Curator Things Presenter
I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them. Jerry Saltz
Eyes Cheating Mistakes Own Way Critic See My Own Sees Feels Like Most Audience Making Go Exhibitions Curator Artist Often Want Them Viewing Shows
The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason I found myself a poet and a collector and now a curator: to save what we didn't even know needed saving. Kevin Young
Myself Me Poet Lost Saving Willed Collector Recovery Suppose Know Been Curator Going Often Reason Even Found Now Keeps Needed Save
It's important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator. Mike Will Made It
Generation Important Put Exciting New New Generation Soundtracks Traditional Curator Hands Just Show Right Albums
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Robert Smithson
Art Own Rather Takes Limits Exhibition His Cultural Curator Than Artist Confinement Place Asking Set
The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other. Thelma Golden
Myself Speak Space Power Beauty Other Ourselves About Had New Talk Exhibition Discovered Discovery Curator Privilege Offer Just Works Each
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator. Waldemar Januszczak
Art Problem World Money Men Thinking Taken Over Course Always Am Real Been Ship Wake Art World Curator Pirates Real Problem Species Awful

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