Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.