Commensalism

Art is visionary; it sees beyond the view from the window, even though the window is its frame. This is why the arts fare much better alongside religion than alongside either capitalism or communism. The god-instinct and the art-instinct both apprehend more than the physical biological material world.

- Jeanette Winterson, "Imagination and Reality" pg 136, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effontery.