thevividgreenmoss:

“On the political significance of film…At no point in time, no matter how utopian, will anyone win the masses over to a higher art; they
can be won over only to one that is nearer to them. And the difficulty consists precisely in finding a form for art such that, with the best conscience in the world, one could hold that it is a higher art. This will never happen with most of what is propagated by the avant-garde of the bourgeoisie.”

— Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project (via bug-gin)