Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" — whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.


"About Music Criticism" (1909), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 196

Arnold Schoenberg Quotes

Although our gentle air cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution...

Although our gentle air cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution...

Although our gentle air cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution...

Although our gentle air cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution...