Theodor W. Adorno - Art Quotes

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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Theodor W. Adorno

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Theodor W. 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.

Theodor W. Adorno

Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Theodor W. Adorno

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Theodor W. Adorno

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

Theodor W. Adorno

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

Theodor W. Adorno

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

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The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

Theodor W. Adorno

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.

Theodor W. Adorno