In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

It's about instant gratification,

Instant gratification is the desire to choose the easy way out.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

Instant gratification is the desire to beat the rules and cut the corners.