Thelma Golden Quotes

#1. As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.

Thelma Golden

#2. I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

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#3. 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

#4. For after the Battle comes quiet.

H.G.Wells

#5. I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

Thelma Golden

#6. The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of people coming and going 'ooh' and 'aah,' the way they do around the Monets. It just doesn't happen.

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#7. And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence - that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary. That, anyhow, is what I've tried to keep before myself. What you do on the earth, the earth makes permanent.

Wendell Berry

#8. I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

Thelma Golden

#9. Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves for bags and linens. In the third, there's just one rod for suits and dresses. To hang evening gowns, I use hooks on the ceiling.

Thelma Golden

#10. The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. If you want a happy ending you have to go out and take it.

Michael Buckley

#12. I'm a big Whole Foods fan.

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#13. I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

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#14. 14You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Anonymous

#15. It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

Michel De Montaigne

#16. I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

Lasse Hallstrom

#17. She says I ought to throw out at least two books for every one I buy. I had new bookshelves put up in the cottage after moving in, but already the to-be-read pile is mounting on to floor of the spare room.

Martin Edwards

#18. An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works of art themselves. It clicks when an exhibition feels like it has answered some questions, and raised even more.

Thelma Golden