How can you expect anyone to believe that it would be beneficial to go back to aesthetic values based on tradition, technical mastery, respect for historical conventions and the petty individual ownership of 'creation'? When you want to kill democracy, you start out by muzzling experimentation and you end up accusing freedom of having rabies.
Nicolas Bourriaud from, Berlin Letter about Relational Aesthetics, from the book Contemporary Art - from Studio to Situation, edited by Claire Doherty.