The painter who dips his brush in the pot knows that his work is futile and that only one thing can be relied on: really existing time, which takes hold of and conserves everything, even as it wears it down. History is a process of erosion. What we call socialism is only its viceroy.


'Swedish Autumn', first publ. 1982

Hans Magnus Enzensberger Quotes

The painter who dips his brush in the pot knows that his work is futile and that only one thing can be relied on: really existing time, which takes...

The painter who dips his brush in the pot knows that his work is futile and that only one thing can be relied on: really existing time, which takes...

The painter who dips his brush in the pot knows that his work is futile and that only one thing can be relied on: really existing time, which takes...

The painter who dips his brush in the pot knows that his work is futile and that only one thing can be relied on: really existing time, which takes...