"Who, then,
will be the Artist of the Future?
The poet? The performer?
The musician?
The plastician?
- Let us say it in one word: the Folk.
That selfsame Folk to whom we owe
the only genuine Art-work,
still living even in our modern memory,
however much distorted by our restorations;
to whom alone we owe all Art itself."

by Richard Wagner,
The Art-work of the Future,
PW I, 204-205.