If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan. T. J. Clark More Quotes by T. J. Clark More Quotes From T. J. Clark Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed. T. J. Clark wish two reality The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense. T. J. Clark painting half art
