Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.