None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it … - Susan Sontag

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None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew what it did. From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.