Art Management Quotes

I don’t know much about the arts, so I’m going to keep my cotton-picking hands off and let you people take care of it.

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role of museum professionals usurped by self-serving tycoons in the name of economic imperative threatens not only the integrity of individual institutions but the very principle of art held in public trust.

I love producing, I love bringing things together.

The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and sketches weigh you down, because they have something unfinished, incomplete, about them. So it's better to present the usable material in an orderly fashion and throw the other stuff away. That's how the Atlas came to be, and I exhibited it a few times.

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 company, Kaikai Kiki, is unique because it's an art business. I had to find out how to do this by myself.

I literally have my hand in every aspect of the art world that you could imagine. That's what I've always done.

Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also have to remember that when you're working with other artists, you have to be really careful about how you deal with that stuff.

Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.