From Grief's article:
"The things you prefer — tastes that you like to think of as personal, unique, justified only by sensibility — correspond tightly to defining measures of social class: your profession, your highest degree and your father’s profession."
Maybe -- if you're preoccupied with defining yourself socially. I come from a pretty poor working-class background. Nobody in my family went to the orchestra or the opera or listened to either on the radio. But when I was in high school I fell in love with classical music. Why? I thought it sounded great. Same thing with painting. Sometimes a painting is just so beautiful you want to climb inside it. Works of art have an intrinsic value altogether apart from any value we may place upon them.
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