"Artists have huge egos, but how that manifests itself changes with times. I find it tedious when I bump into people who insists on giving me their CV highlights. I've always thought that wearing badges or ribbons would solve it. if you're showing in the Whitney Biennial or at the Tate, you could announce it on your jacket. Artists could wear stripes like generals, so everyone would know their rank"

- John Baldessari, artist.

Source: John Baldessari, quoted in Thornton, Sarah. Seven Days in the Art World. 2008. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-393-06722-4. pp. xiii.