'I am utterly pessimistic about the prospect of any event within the teacup-whirlpool that is the Australian art world having an affect, good or ill, on anything whatsoever... ...Artists should forget about art a little and start wondering about what they were born onto earth for, where they stand in relation to everything that's happening in this world, whether what they are doing is as meaningful in a total sense as, say, planting a row of beans or cabbages, building a chicken coop, or going for a walk in the bush.''
-Mike Brown
(Sourced from Natural Selection Magazine)

'Ultimately, it is worth trying to turn the art world into somewhere you would want to be rather than submitting to an existing idea of its limitations.'
-Lucy McKenzie
(In a catalogue essay on Martin Kippenberger)