Curatorial Quotes & Sayings

This was what Dennis had been doing lately: granting everyone permission to feel the way they were going to feel regardless. It was the books. Dennis's relationship to his own feelings had become tender, curatorial. Dismantling. Entomological. Mave couldn't be like that. She treated her emotional life the way she treated her car: She let it go, let it tough it out. To friends she said things like "I know you're thinking this looks like a '79, but it's really an '87." She finally didn't care to understand all that much about her emotional life; she just went ahead and did it. The point, she thought, was to attend the meager theater of it, quietly, and not stand up in the middle and shout, "Oh, my God, you can see the crew backstage!" There was a point at which the study of something became a frightening and naive thing. — Lorrie Moore

The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way. — Ann Brashares

When the right elements combine, anything is possible. — Martin Cosgrove

You can experience your dreams externally, but if your scripted responses get in the way, all there will be are branches and shadows in your life, nothing more. — Lujan Matus

In historical events great men-so called-are but the labels that serve to give a mane to an event, and like labels, they have the last possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity. — Leo Tolstoy

He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all. — Karl Barth

I don't know if I even believe in that anymore. The right guy. The perfect guy. The one. I've lost faith in "the".
How do you feel about "a" and "an"?
Indifferent.
So you're considering a life without articles? — Rainbow Rowell

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him. — Bob Crosby

Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips. — Emily Bronte

Call out if you need a hand. if she looks like she's going to have you, i'll sneak up behind her and whach her on the head with a stiff rabbit — Erin Hunter

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in. — Meryl Streep

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day. — Darrell Royal

Life it too short to deal with crazy people. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience. — Pete McCarthy

Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions. — Michelle Grabner

Fail big if you have to, but go down trying. — Margaret Haddix

...some of the most important work that we can do as scholars may more closely resemble contemporary editorial or curatorial practices, bringing together, highlighting and remixing significant ideas in existing texts than remaining solely focused on the production of more ostensibly original texts. — Kathleen Fitzpatrick