Arnold Schoenberg Quotes

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

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 it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener

Rests always sound well.