Love and sex Sex silences words and words restore the politics of art.

Art We can all recognise the imperfection of art, because we recognise the difficulty of freedom.

Beauty There is no beauty without culture.

Science Surprise is essential in scientific creativity.

Combinatorial mathematics Chance also has a hand in calculation methods.

Communication How can we understand each other without having to lower the level and finish up in a mere exchange?

Advice Intelligence wins when there is risk and humour.

Correspondence Aesthetics mean freedom.

Culture Crossbreeding is the basis of culture, as are the values of difference, originality and criticism.

Definitions Enjoyment is an integral part of knowledge.

God Globality is polytheistic, but the death of God is also a cultural act.

Woman Every time I open my mouth I have a woman under my tongue.

Enigma The presence of mythical and biological enigmas endorses the poetry of the fantastic.

Writing The eyes write an art that was created to be seen, made of ideas to be thought outside of words.

Becoming There will be no art without shutting the number inside the infinite.

Photography Photography is a science that demonstrates the existence of a metaphysics.

History Against the tyrannical power of history and the lack of intellectual courage, ethical resistance in the city of the dead, in the ruins of ideology.

Images The world is no more than the living-room of being.Research Poetry and art owe their being to linguistic research to convert it into language.

Reading The voluntary effort of reading about time is incompatible with mental laziness.

Linguistics The copulative conjunction “and” combines more than it separates.

Literature Don’t place the word alongside painting. Participate in it with more creation.

Language A drama without drama and a combat without violence can rust the self-defence mechanisms of the language.

Freedom If we don’t make use of freedom, we will do little more than repeat sounds.

Memory Only by rehearsing unpublished invention can we write the continuity of an erased memory.

Metaphor Here you have a space that has offered itself as a text for the illusion of the visible.

Morality We should not teach people to disguise the skin of scabs, but to set the wound free.

Nature The artificial nature of man lives alongside abused nature.

Numbers If uneven numbers make a couple, it is because in a couple they never make a whole number.

Nothing Of everything we know, we know precious little. The more we know, the less we know, but the less we know, we know even less.

Craft Often the poet ventures into the improbable and reaches the same result as the scientist does much later.

Order Subvert order and order subversion.

Politics Either we feed democracy with more culture or politics limited to pragmatic partitocracy will kill life. When politics coerces culture, it places freedom in jeopardy.

Postmodernity Against the academic order, the dismembering of the avant-garde. Against the conservation of material wealth, poverty. Against alienation, invention. Against chaos, the tension of a primitive order.

Technology Techno-anthropological destiny turns man into a hypersubject; the unique work into collective and interactive; and style into expressionless dehumanisation.

Time Yesterday’s truth is today’s metaphor, and today’s metaphor will be tomorrow’s reality.

Trance The more confusing reality becomes, the shorter the emotion and the more powerful the form.

Life and death Life is an arithmetic progression towards nothingness..

Vicenç Altaió
Writer, ideas dealer and KRTU director (Cultura, recerca, Tecnologia, Universitats)