From String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art by Elissa Auther

A quote from Christian Berndard, page 90:

Plastic artists who resort to the use of textile clearly do so for its intrinsic qualities, be they plastic or symbolic, but they never do so in order to approach a discussion about textile nor to make experiments concerning the possibilities of this material the  central concern of their work…The textile artist, on the other hand, …generally ends up giving them the an emphasis and an aesthetic value. The plastic artist speaks about the world with the means he finds in the world and which he appropriates according to his needs, whilst the textile artist always speaks in the first instance about his medium and his works are only concerned with giving it a metaphorical sense, or at any rate, it always dominates all other concerns.

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