No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

Encouragement is the engine of life.

Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.

If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.

Rage is mental imbecility.

Never underestimate your talents, and try not to compare or wish for the talents of others. Focus on and accept the talents you have, and you will find great fulfillment in life.

If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.