Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
“By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.” — Béla Bartók Copy Share Image
“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd… — Béla Bartók Copy Share Image
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal"… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
