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

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

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.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

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.