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Curators Quotes by Jerry Saltz
- 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 curators…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Curators Quotes
- The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of… — Anatole France
- We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand. — Helen Caldicott
- I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
- When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Unknown Author
- As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
- I've been covering the art industry for nine years, and I still don't feel like I have a clear grasp on what… — Paddy Johnson
- The leader...is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They… — Warren G. Bennis
- While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves… — Jerry Saltz
- When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable… — Charles Saatchi
- The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more… — Charles Saatchi
- Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. — Robert Genn
- In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson,… — Burton Silverman