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.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.