Theodor Adorno

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth…

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order…

Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the…

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and…

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own…

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime…

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants…

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

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace…

In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew…

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves…

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his…

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass…

No emancipation without that of society…

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength…