Arnold Schoenberg famous quotes

03-26-2025

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Music #Art
Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Music #Morning #Fall
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pearsâ€¦
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Art #Coffee #Apples
My music is not lovely
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Lovely #Music Is
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Feelings #Way #Causes
I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Eye #People #Faces
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Modern #Music Is
Rests always sound well.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Music #Sound #Wells
I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Powerful #Slave #Internals
In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind-not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madÃ©casses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Art #Writing #Mad
I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Revolutionary
Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Art #Mind #Great Art
There are no more geniuses, only critics.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Genius #Critics
Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Hate #Air #Envy
Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Unqualified #Judgment #Intrinsic Value
I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate â€” it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Art #Fall #Swimming
My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Eye #Ears #Should
You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Ideas #Together #Being Together
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Writing #Way #Proud
There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Stills #Plenty
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Art #Two #Giving

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