And thus I arrive at the foundation of my theory about art as a vehicle for dissent: the fury and purity of the creator’s need to say something motivates the work, but he forms it from logic and craft and honesty and when the propaganda value has faded into last week’s imperative, the art remains behind and stands on its own merits.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "And thus I arrive at the foundation of my theory about art as a vehicle for dissent: the fury and purity of the creator’s need to say something motivates the work, but he forms it from logic and craft and honesty and when the propaganda value has faded into last week’s imperative, the art remains behind and stands on its own merits." in the context of "Harlan Ellison, Dreamers on the Barricades (1971), in Robin Scott Wilson (ed.), Clarion (pp. 44-45)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.