Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Quote by Theodor Adorno
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
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Theodor Adorno Quotes
- History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
- He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
- Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
- No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
- The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
- The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
- Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
- In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
- Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
Best Quotes
- Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
- My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
- Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
- He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
- Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.