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. Arnold Schoenberg More Quotes by Arnold Schoenberg More Quotes From Arnold Schoenberg If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art. Arnold Schoenberg music ifs 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 There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major. Arnold Schoenberg plenty written stills I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning. Arnold Schoenberg swimming art fall 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 vices feelings way My music is not modern, it is merely badly played Arnold Schoenberg modern music-is Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. Arnold Schoenberg enough writing ideas 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 should ears 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. Arnold Schoenberg fate organization ideas I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education. Arnold Schoenberg internals slave powerful 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 proud writing way You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together. Arnold Schoenberg being-together together ideas If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears. Arnold Schoenberg apples coffee art I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes. Arnold Schoenberg music eye people Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music. Arnold Schoenberg color purpose firsts 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 giving two art My music is not lovely. Arnold Schoenberg lovely music-is I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss! Arnold Schoenberg our-time revolutionary 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 claims In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring! Arnold Schoenberg creation spring art
