“If the language of art is not accessible to ordinary language and ordinary experience, how can it be accessible to ordinary people?”

— Daniel Bell, book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 3, The Sensibility of the Sixties, p. 131

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