“The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.”

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

“The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.”

“Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.”

“Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.”

“It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.”

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”