It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.
Theodor AdornoArt 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 AdornoDialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor Adorno