Why does almost everything seem to me like its own parody? Why must I think that almost all, no, all the methods and conventions of art today are good for parody only?
Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.
Barbarism is the antithesis of culture only within a structure of thought that provides us the concept.