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

 

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


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This quote is just one of 5 total Arnold Schoenberg quotes in our collection. Arnold Schoenberg is known for saying 'You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, For they will come into being together.' as well as some of the following quotes.

I was a painter, perhaps, but I am not any longer a painter. I didn't paint for many, many years - but at least two or three decades.

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

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Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composers in a conventional or progressive manner, whether one tries to imitate old styles or is destined to express new ideas - one must be convinced of the infallibility of one's own fantasy and one must believe in one's own inspiration. -Arnold Schoenberg
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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!

Arnold Schoenberg
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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.

Arnold Schoenberg
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