Aesthetics Quotes

“The better someone actually understands art, however – by which I mean the more genuine their relationship to art – the less they will really enjoy art.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetics

“[...] one cannot understand a music – if it is a highly organized music – as long as one perceives only individual beautiful passages in it, which may even become a virtual wall blocking one's access to an understanding of the work itself. If you add up an important musical work for yourself from such beautiful passages, what you are really making of this work is nothing but a potpourri of itself – or you are moving it in the direction of a smash hit.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetics