Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.
Art is hard for a puritan to understand.
Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
I am not faithful but I am attached.
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.