Best Curator Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I've always wanted to play a role as a producer and a curator and to help make drag really have an epic scale and a large audience and a lot of interest.”

“One of the great privileges of my job as a curator is occasionally taking people up onto the roof of Hampton Court for a tour.”

“It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.”

“My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.”

“I don't really understand why people are so interested in me, personally. I'm just a curator. I'm just telling people things I think are cool.”

“It has been a great honor to serve the four campuses of the University of Missouri System in the role of curator, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity.”

“I think that in many ways, my work is very character-driven and not necessarily embodied by me, but definitely me as the orchestrator or the curator of the characters in my universe.”

“I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking the question, I said, 'Impurity.' Because that's it.”

“I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.”

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

“If you work as a curator, as I do, at Hampton Court, you sometimes wonder if there might be more to life than Henry VIII.”

“The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.”

“I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.”

“The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.”

“The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of people coming and going 'ooh' and 'aah,' the way they do around the Monets. It just doesn't happen.”