The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

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

There is no love that is not an echo.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

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.