"When works of art aren't provided with a text - in an accompanying pamphlet, catalog, art magazine, or elsewhere - they seem to have been delivered into the world unprotected, lost and unclad. Images without text are embarrassing, like a naked person in a public space. At the very least they need a textual bikini in the form of an inscription with the name of the artist and the title (in the worst case this can read "Untitled"). Only the domestic intimacy of a private collection allows for the full nakedness of a work of art."

Boris Groys. Critical Reflections (Artforum, October 1997)