Who said “Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you…”?

“This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.”

“Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.”

“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.”

“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.”

“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”

“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”

“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”

“The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.”

“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”

“It is either easy or impossible.”

“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”