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Modern art is an attempt to disintegrate man’s consciousness and reduce it to a pre-conceptual level; A breaking of concepts into mere sensations. Disintegration is the keynote and goal of modern art. The disintegration of man’s conceptual faculty and the retrogression of an adult mind to the state of an infant. To reduce man’s consciousness to the level of sensation with no capacity to integrate them is the intention behind the reducing of language to grunts, of literature to moods, of painting to smears, of sculpture to slabs, of music to noise.

⁠— Ayn Rand