Quotes About Curation

the true collector's only home is his own museum.

Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.

I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.

The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.

Good scripts that are offered to me are few and far between, so I pick the best that I get.

I believe Microsoft has every right to operate a PC app store and to curate it how they choose.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

I collect a lot of art.

A museum is a place where nothing was lost, just rediscovered…

I am more used to seeing my work like a big collection, and only part of it is being shown.

We'll turn down crappy games that are submitted to the Epic Store.

The one person who's disappeared out of the business is the A&R man. Because the listener at home becomes the A&R man. He's the one who chooses what tracks he wants on the album. And that's cool.

There are too many books in the world.

I collect words and lock them away, stored like a hoard of gems.

Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.