Quote

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Theodor Adorno

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Theodor Adorno
Art
Work
Every
Uncommitted
Crime

More quotes by Theodor Adorno

Image
One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno
Image
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.
Theodor Adorno
Image
In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.
Theodor Adorno
Image
He who integrates is lost.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
Theodor Adorno
Image
All the world's not a stage.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
Theodor Adorno
Image
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.
Theodor Adorno
Image
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno