I have never really understood the objection to art which is specifically made for a gallery or museum, and so cannot be collected by an individual o… - Nicholas Serota

An honest curator will admit that judgement is fallible, especially for art made yesterday.

A visit to a studio never fails to test my resources. It constantly reminds me of the condition in which most people first confront contemporary art. This is a state of "not knowing", of "not understanding", of being disorientated or challenged by the unfamiliar. One of my responsibilities as a curator is therefore to remember that a visitor encountering an unfamiliar work of art in the museum is likely to be as unprepared as I was in the studio. But I've come to realise that it's precisely when I am most challenged in my own reactions that the deepest insights emerge.

The argument that new vision becomes the reference point for the future, is a line that I have been driven to use on many occasions.