Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

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

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.