Art Quote by Robert Smithson

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

— Michelle Grabner

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end…

— Robert Smithson

There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would be that…

— Kehinde Wiley

My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't…

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Art transcends cultural boundaries.

— Thomas Kinkade

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something…

— Starsmith

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part…

— Nick Cave

The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all artists want…

— Kerry James Marshall

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am…

— Aleksandra Mir

If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the…

— Theaster Gates

Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new…

— Willa Cather

Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it has become…

— Michelle Grabner