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Art Quotes by Theodor Adorno
- Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
- The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
- Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
- Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
- Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
- The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
- Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
- Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
- A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by…
- The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.
- Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing…
- In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores…
- It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts…
- Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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