art is one of the primary human activities, and that it can succeed in articulating not just the imposed or constitutive social or intellectual system , but at once this and an experience of it, its lived consequence , in ways very close to many other kinds of active response, in new social activity and in what we know as personal life, but of course often more accessibly, just because it is specifically formed and because when it is made it is in its own way complete, even autonomous, and being the kind of work it is can be transmitted and communicated beyond its original situation and circumstances.
Raymond Williams, CULTURE AND MATERIALISM
