Two great ones relating to science fiction, but could just as easily apply to artistic ideas...
...a term Darko Suvin adapts from Ernst Bloch and defines as "a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly- (and in the current state of knowledge) impossible".[97]Suvin, Darko (1979) Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre
...a great many ((artists)) writers and critics have based their entire careers on the premise that anything that the general public can understand without mediation is worthless drivel. [...] If everybody came to agree that stories should be told this clearly, the professors of literature would be out of job, and the writers of obscure, encoded fiction would be, not honored, but pitied for their impenetrability."[98] Card, O.:Ender's Game, Introduction
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