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

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

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

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 lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

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