Quotes About Curation

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

My best piece of style advice is to keep your wardrobe small and love everything in it.

Museums, whatever their content, are logical design arenas. Their renewed vitality reflects a spreading curatorial perception that a museum is a designed situation more than it is a warehouse open to the public. This in turn has made it possible for a great many people, including children, to perceive museum-going as something to do, rather than something that is done to you.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

At a certain point, I had so much artwork that I decided to respect the art and present them in a nice way, not just on a dusty shelf.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

Keep the best, forget the rest.

Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and accessibility, curation and community.

I spend my life collecting books and sentences from them: I've sought alongside ones I've stumbled across, and sentences I've forced into my brain through rote memorization alongside ones that just found their way by themselves. At home, I'm a librarian, forever curating my collection. Outside of my apartment, I'm a bookseller—hand-selling my favorite books to everyone I encounter. There's a name for someone who behaves the way I do: Reader.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

You don't make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That's a warehouse.

You don't make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That's a warehouse. What makes a museum great is the stuff that's not on the walls. Someone says no. A curator is involved, making conscious decisions about what should stay and what should go. There's an editing process. There's a lot more stuff off the walls than on the walls. The best is a sub-sub-subset of all the possibilities.

It's the stuff you leave out that matters. So constantly look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Be a curator. Stick to what's truly essential.

It's the stuff you leave out that matters. So constantly look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Be a curator.

We want to ensure works are placed with people who collect responsibly.

On Common Culture, you'll find coffee, clothing, and compilations. So many C's!

I collect songs because I want to control what I - what everybody within earshot - listens to.

Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.

I cap my shoe collection at 40.

I chose people who would complement the songs that I put them on.

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.