Revolutions in aesthetic sensibility may be the only way in which radical change can be brought about in the future… It may be only from aesthetic changes of one sort or another that one can expect a radical shift in the people’s consciousness.
“Soon I hope to live in a totally rubber house. Think how quickly I will be able to get from room to room! One good bounce and you’re there. I have a friend whose hands were melted off by a firebomb during the war. Now, once again, he will learn to pass the bread at the dinner table. Learning is life. I hope to invite him over this evening in fact. Learning is the same colour as life. He says things like that.”
Anne Carson | “Short Talk on Hopes”