"But amateurism's real lack of ambition isn't simply its rejection of the limited notion of technical specialism. Rather, the adoption of the amateur idiom is a declaration that the artist cannot offer a vision of experience which is any more valid or insightful than anyone else. In much the same way as politicians, lacking any credibility with the public, prefer to endlessly seek out the public's opinion rather than set the agenda themselves, so recent artists content themselves with insisting that they are no different, and no more extraordinary than the rest of us ... As part of that process of minimisation, amateurist art, represents a further retreat from the risk of failure; By lowering the stakes, it becomes impossible to lose."