Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

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.

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.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.