Theodor Adorno

Normality is death.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.