Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

Like books, artists have their fates.

...people cannot and do not want to live unrelated to others.

If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics

His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

She was trying to hide it, the pain I had caused her again. Because she knew how much those tears destroyed me.

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

But surely we are not allowed..." "Allowed?" I counters. "We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up.