Arnold Schoenberg - Art Quotes

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... if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Arnold Schoenberg

If it is art, it is not for the masses. 'If it is for the masses it is not art' is a topic which is rather similar to a word of yourself.

Arnold Schoenberg

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…

Arnold Schoenberg

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

Art is the desperate cry of those who experience in themselves the fate of humanity.

Arnold Schoenberg

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