The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.
As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.
Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.