I think he's just reciting clichés of mid twentieth century modernism here, where it's the artist's job to be daring and innovative and shake the audience out of its complacency, and if the audience isn't up for that, it's the end of civilization as we know it. Didn't postmodernism take us past the idea that if you're a TV or movie star you're a miserable sellout and the only great art is what's on the fringe?
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