The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

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

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

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