The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.