The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
Art. . . can become the direct organisation of more highly evolved sensations.
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.
I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.