Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.
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.
Barbarism is the antithesis of culture only within a structure of thought that provides us the concept.