Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
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.
It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
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.