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 Copy Share Image
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss! — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
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… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
