Thelma Golden quotes

“Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves for bags and linens. In the third, there's just one rod for suits and dresses. To hang evening gowns, I use hooks on the ceiling.”
-- Thelma Golden

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“As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.”
-- Thelma Golden

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“I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.”
-- Thelma Golden

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“I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.”
-- Thelma Golden

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“I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.”
-- Thelma Golden

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“I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.”
-- Thelma Golden

#Exhibitions Quotes

“An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works of art themselves. It clicks when an exhibition feels like it has answered some questions, and raised even more.”
-- Thelma Golden

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“The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?”

“The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.22, Macmillan

“After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.”

Source : Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.28

“Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.”

“You're very short, aren't you?" She smirked at Petunia. "And you've got a nose like a stoat," Petunia replied. "But at least I can always have my gowns altered.”

“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.”

“Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.”

“Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.”