Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
Theodor AdornoEven the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
Theodor AdornoA successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.
Theodor Adorno