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

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.