The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

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.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

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