But how society regards the role of curator depends on how quality is defined. Selection for preservation are works which make the most noise and achieving media exposure. Fortunately there are able art gallery directors, newspaper critics and connoisseurs resisting this trend. Rules have always been necessary as a guide, so that even when broken or bent, they remain as a structure to relate to. What remains after the application of rules is what we ultimately experience from art, at its best.
Truth is inevitably paradoxical to the intellect one reason for wisdom to be incommunicable.
More insidious is the problem of how the artist can evaluate his own position. But to sustain this over a lifetime is a tough call. The artist cannot turn his back on the negative aspect of the social environment nor can he succumb to it and remain the artist as defined above. But this environment is hostile even for Camus' and Colin Wilson's outsider, he becomes an endangered species. Media is accepted as art.