PIERRE BOURDIEU | FORMS OF CAPITAL (1986)

THE CLASS OF PRACTICES WHOSE EXPLICIT PURPOSE IS TO MAXIMIZE MONETARY PROFIT CANNOT BE DEFINED AS SUCH WITHOUT PRODUCING THE PURPOSELESS FINALITY OF CULTURAL OR ARTISTIC PRACTICES AND THEIR PRODUCTS; THE WORLD OF THE BOURGEOIS MAN, WITH HIS DOUBLE-ENTRY ACCOUNTING, CANNOT BE INVENTED WITHOUT PRODUCING THE PURE, PERFECT UNIVERSE OF THE ARTIST AND THE INTELLECTUAL AND THE GRATUITOUS ACTIVITIES OF ART-FOR-ART’S SAKE AND PURE THEORY.