Curator Quotes

39 Curator quotes by 28 unique authors

I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love… — Bonnie Raitt
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and… — David Rockefeller
As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please… — Jerry Saltz
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists,… — Jerry Saltz
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much… — Jerry Saltz
I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my… — Jerry Saltz
I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the… — Jerry Saltz
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and… — Jerry Saltz
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and… — Jerry Saltz
When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this… — Jerry Saltz
A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators. — Richard Fortey
My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for… — Jodi Picoult
If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands. — Kevin Hearne
Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What… — Brian Selznick

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