'Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.'

'Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.'

'Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.'

'And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usua…

What has Oscar in common with Art? except that he dines at our tables and picks from our platter the plums for the puddings he peddles in the provinces.

The average English critic is a don manque, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in…

I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. T…