Quotes About Curation

A curator's job does not involve wizardry, but requires a wealth of experience and knowledge, responsibility, and a good overview of artistic developments. But if we are lucky, we curators still manage to enchant visitors with the results. - René Block

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

I have an exclusive gallery that takes care of the all of my artworks. I want to stay focused on the art and of creating and let my gallery take care of the more commercial aspects.

The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.

When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years.

When you make a movie with a lot of music in it, you can't always put all the songs onto the soundtrack. They just don't all fit.

It's important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

people enjoy being able to articulate their interests and define themselves by selectively compiling and resharing content created by others

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

I've done a pretty good job of curating a Twitter feed that doesn't make me hate the world.

Quantity is a poor measure of the artistic merits of a collection,

For a while, gently bumping into my nightstand meant a pile of 50 books clattering onto my head and the floor. After the 10th time this happened, I moved most of the books to a shelf in the spare room. Now, my nightstand is sort of like a bookish country club. And not all books get in.

Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles .

I'm listening to Spotify all the time and pulling in different things. I might find an artist or a song that I like, and I'll pull that into playlists, and then you'll find related artists. But I like an album as a nostalgic thing; I remember buying albums and getting into the whole thing.

I always looked askance at Pandora and Spotify, regarding both as a passive means of experiencing music; they feed you music they presume you will like, and eventually you like it.

anthology knowledge isn't real knowledge.

This is the second Simply Red song on this tape. One's unforgivable. Two's a war crime. Can I fast-forward?

But with each passing year, and each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.