They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical clichรฉ, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.
Theodor AdornoThe darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
Theodor AdornoThinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Theodor Adorno