The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

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

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

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.