Quotes About Curation

There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.

Epic will manually curate the Epic Games storefront rather than relying on algorithms or paid ads.

I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.

Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

A DJ's job is to channel the vast ocean of recorded sound into a single unforgettable evening.

Once I've cleared away the things I don't need, use, or love, my surroundings reveal to me, and to others, the things that matter most to me. Careful curation means that my space and my possessions reflect my truest identity.

The biggest daily challenge of social media is finding enough content to share. We call this "feeding the Content Monster." There are two ways to do this: content creation and content curation.

Content curation involves finding other people's good stuff, summarizing it, and sharing it. Curation is a win-win-win: you need content to share; blogs and websites need more traffic; and people need filters to reduce the flow of information.

When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.

I think most albums should be 13 tracks, to be fair. It's a matter of interest. It's quality over quantity.

I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way.

My city is not only losing jobs. We're losing people, and it's frightening. During my recent art curation at the City Club, I spent most of that time urging Cleveland residents and city officials to adopt a plan to merge East Cleveland with Cleveland so we can maintain our population, because doing nothing is no longer an option.

It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.

I organize my closet by season, color, and silhouette, but I don't edit often enough, which causes me to hoard Hermes cuffs in Hermes bags that are crammed into my living room because my closet is overflowing.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Once you become a curator, you will inevitably end up on TV, if only to talk about your latest exhibition.

Instagram is my edit of my life.

I like to compare 'Instagram' to the Library of Congress.

Your Instagram shouldn't have 35 pictures from the same event.

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.