Museum Curators Quotes

#1. If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn't want to say anything.

Ron Shock

#2. In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?

Burton Silverman

#3. In order for completeness first hand most people have to live with the truth.

Khem Veasna

#4. To sweeten the hours we share scandals from the city, how curators removed an elephant's heart from the museum because it began beating when anyone in love looked at it, how the coroner found minnows swimming in a drowned girl's lungs.

Traci Brimhall

#5. Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.

Monica O Montgomery

#6. Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.

Alex Flinn

#7. We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

Pope Francis

#8. 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

#9. I chose this path for solitude, not realizing the the hobo life is a very sociable lifestyle...

G. Johanson

#10. Education is the lifeblood of museums.

Monica O Montgomery

#11. See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.

Robin McLaurin Williams

#12. I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. Extract and expel implicit biases from your work life. Don't taint our visitors with your bias and views. Allow them to form their own conclusions where it's developmentally appropriate.

Monica O Montgomery

#14. The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#15. It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

Greg Lynn

#16. And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white marble; it gets everywhere, appears under your chisel at any moment without warning. Your statue has to be redone.

Victor Hugo