A quote from Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces

The masterpiece convinced you that truth and beauty were someone else’s gift from God, the protest… that revolution was a fact of someone else’s life. Neither could ever be yours, and so you left each show diminished, with less than you had brought to it.

Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century

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