Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.