British Curator Quotes

Edward Lucie-Smith

Nicholas Serota

This is a plea for patience. Your scepticism will gradually diminish and your fear will turn to love…All art was modern once.

To critics of modern art

Nicholas Serota

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

Edward Lucie-Smith