He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

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

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

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

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.