Home » Quote » Theodor W. Adorno » „Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.“ „Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.“ — Theodor W. Adorno Tags:ArtLieTruth Related quotes „The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.“ — Anaïs Nin „Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.“ — Stephen King „Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.“ — Pablo Picasso „The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.“ — Franz Kafka „The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.“ — John Keats „She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.“ — Charles Bukowski „Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.“ — Chuck Palahniuk „Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.“ — Christopher Paolini