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If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

source: - Arnold Schoenberg (2014). “Style and Idea”, p.49, Open Road Media

Topics: Music, Art

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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.

source: - Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.180, Univ of California Press

Topics: 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€¦

source: - Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.313, Univ of California Press

Topics: Art, Coffee, Apples, Pears, Potpourri

My music is not lovely

Topics: 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.

Topics: Feelings, Way, Causes

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

source: - "Expressionism". Book by Norbert Wolf, p. 92, 2004.

Topics: Eye, People, Faces

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

source: - "Immanence and Transcendence" by Gérard Genette, 1997.

Topics: Modern, Music Is

Rests always sound well.

Topics: Music, Sound, Wells

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Topics: 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.

source: - "Ravel: Man and Musician". Book by Arbie Orenstein, p. 126, 1975.

Topics: Art, Writing, Mad

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

source: - Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.137, Univ of California Press

Topics: Revolutionary

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener

Topics: Art, Mind, Great Art

There are no more geniuses, only critics.

source: - Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.203, Univ of California Press

Topics: 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.

source: - Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.196, Univ of California Press

Topics: 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.

source: - Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.190, Univ of California Press

Topics: Unqualified, Judgment, Intrinsic Value, Inverse

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.

source: - Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.210, Univ of California Press

Topics: 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.

source: - "Schoenberg‎". Book by Merle Armitage, p. 143, 1971.

Topics: Eye, Ears, Should

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

Topics: 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!

source: - Arnold Schoenberg, Christian Meyer, Therese Muxeneder, Arnold Schönberg Center (2005). “Arnold Schönberg: catalogue raisonné”

Topics: Writing, Way, Proud, String Quartets, Quartets

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Topics: 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.

source: - Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.189, Univ of California Press

Topics: Art, Two, Giving

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

source: - Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.439, Univ of California Press

Topics: Writing, Ideas, Enough

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Topics: Fate, Organization, Ideas

My music is not lovely.

source: - "Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius". Book by Detlev Claussen, Harvard University Press, p. 387, "Art and the Arts", 2009.

Topics: Lovely, Music Is

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Topics: Color, Purpose, Firsts, Lucidity

Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes with every concept all associations pertaining to the complex.

source: - "Style and Idea".

Topics: Education, Art, Mind

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

Topics: Art, Spring, Creation

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