“[Bill Reid] has written that ‘once we discard our ethnocentric, hierarchical ideas of how the world works, we will find that one basic quality unites all the works of mankind that speak to us in human, recognizable voices across the barrier of time, culture and space: the simple quality of being well made.’ He suggests that the ability to recognize a well-made object is a basic qualification for a museum director or curator, and that the skill and motivation to make such objects would alleviate the problems of many of the younger generation.”

— Doris Shadbolt, Bill Reid p. 83