Quotes About Curation

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard.

I've teamed up with BaubleBar to curate a collection of gorgeous jewelry pieces. I worked closely with the BaubleBar team to design a collection that encompasses my style and all of my go to pieces.

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

I have a repository of titles I like in my head, and I am always looking for a movie that I can put one on.

I pick and choose what I want to put on what. Instead of just dropping a single, I like putting projects together.

There is so much more content in English that a lot of people have a hard time filtering through the noise.

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Bookstores should be broken down into two sections: books that suck and books that don't suck.

I didn't reinvent clothing; I reinvented the edit.

Because there's so much stuff I don't release.

You don't have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.

We're very historically tried and true when it comes to our albums. We pick the best songs; we get rid of the songs we feel don't fit on the album, and we don't work on remixing or remastering albums.

I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.

Too many books by too many authors can be confusing

The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't spend money on lighting and installation.

The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We're relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter and to tell you that this is worth reading about, this is quality, and this is quite reliable.

At Glossier, we're creating an edited collection of the best essential products. These are the ones that you reach for every day and will always have a place on your top shelf.

Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule