“Culture costs money. It costs mainly because access to it must not primarily be determined by a privately filled wallet. (...)

Substantially, the promotion of culture has to be no less a compulsory task of the public budget than, for example, road construction, public security or the financing of salaries in the public service.

It is grotesque that we call expenditures in the cultural field 'subsidies', while no one would think of spending subsidies on a station building or a playground as subsidies. The expression directs us in the wrong direction.

Because culture is not a luxury that we can afford or paint at will, but the spiritual ground that secures our inner survivability. "