Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

What appears is good; what is good appears.

Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.