A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and…

You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

— Rei Kawakubo

M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.

— Alan Alda

“We are naught but a collection of the people we have known and the paths we have followed.”

— Jeremy Laszlo

While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and…

— Jerry Saltz

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

— Ethan Zuckerman

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.

— Chad Hurley

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

— Robert Genn

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators…

— Charles Saatchi

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…

— Burton Silverman

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists,…

— David Chipperfield

It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.

— David Galenson

It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs and making…

— Tom Riley

I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

— Steve Ballmer

“Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox collection.) But…

— Elizabeth Newton

If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the…

— Theaster Gates