Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.