A Successful Work Of Art Is Not One Which Resolves Contradictions In A Spurious Harmony

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A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a
spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by
embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost
structure.
-- Theodore Adorno

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