Nicolas Guagnini: "When I started making art in 1977, I was 11, and the requirement for being an artist was to learn how to draw. When I started teaching art in the early aughts at Barnard College at Columbia University, the college's requirement was to be able to write a statement."
"There has been a discursive shift. Artists must be able either to express what they want to do in an articulate manner or to clearly represent an identity that will replace that discourse and be easily discoursed by a third party in teurn."