The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.
Theodor AdornoThey [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 individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
Theodor Adorno