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

It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

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.

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.