Top 35 Quotes About Curating
#1. 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
#2. Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do ...
Sheila Heti
#3. 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
#4. Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.
Dave Grohl
#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. I love curating, because I'm lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people.
Martin Parr
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. With Street View, you're curating a data set capable of incredible emotional resonance for the person interacting with it because everyone grew up somewhere. And if your house is in this dataset, that's going to provide some emotional context for you.
Chris Milk
#10. I'm interested in pitches that have compelling people and ideas at the core - and a good news peg certainly doesn't hurt. We look for stories that are solutions-oriented, but not irrationally upbeat, from writers with a strong voice. For LadyJournos, where I'm curating not editing.
Ann Friedman
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#14. You can't have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.
David Oyelowo
#15. Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#16. By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse resume to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready--for nothing in particular.
Peter Thiel
#17. I've done a pretty good job of curating a Twitter feed that doesn't make me hate the world.
Timothy Simons
#18. More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.
Danny Meyer
#19. Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#20. I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#21. All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly ...
Frances Trollope
#22. Just like Seasons, People Change. But the difference is, once gone, seasons come back.
Himanshu Chhabra
#24. Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?
Maira Kalman
#25. All our troubles, says somebody wise, come upon us because we cannot be alone.
D.H. Lawrence
#27. -compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side dressing of pelleted chicken manure. Over the winter a cover crop of legumes is planted to build up nitrogen in the soil.
Michael Pollan
#28. Then he got more books. He saved all the books.
Dave Eggers
#29. Becoming an influential personality at work is much more important than becoming a hardworking person!
Abhishek Ratna
#30. From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
#31. We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.
Rob Nilsson
#32. I had my girl, which meant I had everything.
Aria Cole
#33. I want to step outside my circle and look at the other options. I don't want to do what other people think I'll end up doing.
Melina Marchetta
#34. The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation ... , the more elusive it becomes ... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.
Alan Watts
#35. More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
Ian Wace
