Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.