Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

He who integrates is lost.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.