"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."

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

Arnold Schoenberg

#Unqualified Quotes #Judgment Quotes #Intrinsic Value Quotes

“I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.”
“Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.”
“If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.”
“I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.”
“What keeps me going is my children.”
“My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.”
“I always say that everyone has to start by being true to themselves.”
“There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with philosophers and poets, or playwrights. We do not live in that moment, and the best way to gauge the proximity of an academic field to power is by salary.”

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