"Where the simplifications of great art show us human nature in its nakedness, the stereotypes of popular art strip away even the flesh,
and the still, sad music of humanity is reduced to the rattle of dry bones. It is not simplification but schematization that is
achieved; what is put before us is not the substance of the text but a reader's digest. All art selects what is significant and suppresses
the trivial. But for popular art the criteria of significance are fixed by the needs of the standardization, by the editor of the
digest and not by the Author of the reality to be grasped."
