The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases us from the need to decide between beautiful and ugly, between real and unreal, between transcendence and immanence. Just as Byzantine icons made it possible to stop asking whether God existed — without, for all that, ceasing to believe in him.
Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena













