Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
“The paradise offered by the culture industry is the same old drudgery. Both escape and elopement are pre-designed to lead back to the starting… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good.… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share
