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> [Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/comprehensibility-is-the-highest-law-of-all-unity-must-be-there-there/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

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## More by Anton Webern

> [What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/what-is-music-music-is-language-a-human-being-wants-to-express-ideas/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [So how do people listen to music? How do the broad masses listen to it? Apparently they have to be able to cling to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/so-how-do-people-listen-to-music-how-do-the-broad-masses-listen-to-it/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/indeed-man-only-exists-insofar-as-he-expresses-himself-music-does-it/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/and-the-works-that-endure-and-will-endure-for-ever-the-great/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [The idea is distributed in space. It isn't only in one part; one part can't express the idea any longer, only the union of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/the-idea-is-distributed-in-space-it-isn-t-only-in-one-part-one-part/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/it-s-always-the-same-mediocrities-are-over-valued-and-great-men-are/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [Unity is surely the indispensable thing if meaning is to exist. Unity, to be very general, is the establishment of the utmost relatedness between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/unity-is-surely-the-indispensable-thing-if-meaning-is-to-exist-unity/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/comprehensibility-is-the-highest-law-of-all-unity-must-be-there-there/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/as-regards-the-presentation-of-musical-ideas-obviously-rules-of-order/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/music-is-natural-law-as-related-to-the-sense-of-hearing/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/from-this-simple-phenomenon-this-idea-of-saying-something-twice-more/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/art-is-a-product-of-nature-in-general-in-the-particular-form-of-human/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/if-you-want-to-make-something-clear-to-someone-you-mustn-t-forget-the/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/except-for-the-violin-pieces-and-a-few-of-my-orchestra-pieces-all-of/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

> [The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/the-time-was-simply-ripe-for-the-disappearance-of-tonality-naturally/)

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