"The art of any given period or culture is a faithful reflection of that culture's philosophy. If you see obscene, dismembered monstrosities leering at you from today's esthetic mirrors—the aborted creations of mediocrity, irrationality and panic—you are seeing the embodied, concretized reality of the philosophical premises that dominate today's culture. Only in this sense can those manifestations be called 'art'—not by the intention or the accomplishment of the perpetrators but only by grace of the fact that even in usurping the field of art, one cannot escape from its revelatory power.

"It is a frightening sight, but it has a certain didactic value: those who do not wish to surrender their future to the mercy of unfocused gargoyles, can learn from them what swamp is their breeding ground and what disinfectant is needed to fight them. The swamp is modern philosophy; the disinfectant is reason."

Ayn Rand