A Quote by Ethan Zuckerman

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

Ethan Zuckerman

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Ethan Zuckerman
American - Activist

With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you're going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It's the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for - I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There's always going to be those people. It just depends on what they're called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.

Bjork

While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.

Jerry Saltz

It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.

David Galenson

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

Chris Abani

I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.

Robert Barry

Thanks to secondary education and the Internet, we're all knowledgeable now - if knowledge means the accumulation of facts. Curators are those who know how to maneuver around that knowledge.

Peter Greenaway

When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

Waldemar Januszczak

If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the great potential for an understanding between collectors, curators and galleries.