In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

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

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

Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.