5. The definition of aura as 'a unique manifestation of a remoteness, no matter how near it may be' represents nothing other than a formulation of the cultic value of the work of art in categories of spatial and temporal perception. Remoteness is the opposite of propinquity.The essence of remoteness is that it cannot be approached...'remote no matter how near'.

-Walter Benjamin (The Work of Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction