Daniel Bell Quote

Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.


Chapter 3, The Sensibility of the Sixties, p. 124 - The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)


Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.

Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.

Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.

Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.