Phrase: The happiness gained from artworks is that of having suddenly escaped...

From page 15, "The happiness gained from artworks is that of having suddenly escaped, not a morsel of that from which art has escaped; it is accidental and less essential to art than the happiness in its knowledge; the concept of aesthetic pleasure as constitutive of art is to be superceded."

This quote from Adorno addresses art's transcendent nature, not from the point of view that an idiosyncratic aesthetic can be beheld by any audience in any time, but from the idea that the knowledge of one's relish is transcendent.