Curating Art Quotes

#1. For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#2. More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.

Danny Meyer

#3. But all of us, in some way, reflect an image of God-of who He is. So who's to say what's right or what's wrong about how we look?
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Ginny L. Yttrup

#4. I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#5. Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#6. Season your admiration for a while.

William Shakespeare

#7. Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time and eventually a book will make itself known.

Jeffrey Littorno

#8. History is a madman's museum.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

Jason Mraz

#10. I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

Nate Lowman

#11. The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

Jerry Saltz

#12. Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

Jacob Bronowski

#13. Remember what I told you about family secrets." People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman's rocking didn't change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room.

B. J. Daniels

#14. We came from the sea originally, now we're going back in it. Don't go in it, unless you're in a boat.

Karl Pilkington

#15. Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#16. Apple really has no presence in business, and we think Vista's going to have a huge presence in business. We think we're going to help the corporate IT stack save money.

Jim Allchin

#17. Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#18. Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

Isaac McLellan

#19. In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and running a muck among the exhibits of fabulous Jamaican art at the National Gallery while mum was upstairs curating.

Michael Hyatt