— Arnold Schoenberg Austrian-American composer 1874 - 1951
"Hauer's Theories" (Notes of November 1923), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 210
1920s
„Music is the art of the imaginary par excellence, an art free of all limits imposed by words, an art that touches the depth of human existence, and art of sounds that crosses all borders.“
Statement at the .
Kontext: Despite the fact that as an art, music cannot compromise its principles, and politics, on the other hand, is the art of compromise, when politics transcends the limits of the present existence and ascents to the higher sphere of the possible, it can be joined there by music. Music is the art of the imaginary par excellence, an art free of all limits imposed by words, an art that touches the depth of human existence, and art of sounds that crosses all borders. As such, music can take the feelings and imagination of Israelis and Palestinians to new unimaginable spheres.
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— Henry Flynt American musician 1940
Henry Flynt: "Essay: Concept Art." (1961) In: La Monte Young (ed.) An Anthology, 1963.
— Arnold Hauser Hungarian art historian 1892 - 1978
Quelle: The Social History of Art, Volume III. Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism, 1999, Chapter 6. German and Western Romanticism
„The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.“
— Ralph Vaughan Williams English composer 1872 - 1958
National Music (1934) p. 123.
„Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.“
— Ferruccio Busoni Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and piano teacher 1866 - 1924
The Essence of Music (1923)
— Edvard Munch Norwegian painter and printmaker 1863 - 1944
Manuscript (1891); as quoted in Edvard Munch and the Physiology of Symbolism (2002) by Shelley Wood Cordulack
1880 - 1895
— Jean Dubuffet, buch Prospectus et tous écrits suivants
Quelle: 1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 206
„Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity“
— Maurice Denis French painter 1870 - 1943
as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [42]
Nouvelles théories sur l'art moderne..., 1922
— H. Havelock Ellis British physician, writer, and social reformer 1859 - 1939
Quelle: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 2
— Harvey Dwight Dash American art educator 1924 - 2002
[Pictures Called Products Of Art., The Record, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvey_Dwight_Dash_(1924-2002)_in_The_Record_of_Hackensack,_New_Jersey_on_5_November_1959.png, November 5, 1959, Harvey Dwight Dash]
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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, buch Style and Idea
from New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea (1946); as quoted in Style and Idea (1985), p. 124
1940s
— Donald Judd artist 1928 - 1994
Donald Judd, in: American Dialog, Vol. 1-5, (1964), p. ix
1960s
Kontext: Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all. The one struggle in art is the struggle of artists against artists, of artist against artist, of the artist-as-artist within and against the artist-as- man, -animal, or -vegetable. Artists who claim their artwork comes from nature, life, reality, earth or heaven, as 'mirrors of the soul' or 'reflections of conditions' or 'instruments of the universe', who cook up 'new images of man' - figures and 'nature-in-abstraction' - pictures, are subjectively and objectively, rascals or rustics.
— J.A. Hobson English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism 1858 - 1940
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906), Ch. XVII Civilisation and Industrial Development
Kontext: The case is a simple one. A mere increase in the variety of our material consumption relieves the strain imposed upon man by the limits of the material universe, for such variety enables him to utilise a larger proportion of the aggregate of matter. But in proportion as we add to mere variety a higher appreciation of those adaptations of matter which are due to human skill, and which we call Art, we pass outside the limits of matter and are no longer the slaves of roods and acres and a law of diminishing returns. So long as we continue to raise more men who demand more food and clothes and fuel, we are subject to the limitations of the material universe, and what we get ever costs us more and benefits us less. But when we cease to demand more, and begin to demand better, commodities, more delicate, highly finished and harmonious, we can increase the enjoyment without adding to the cost or exhausting the store. What artist would not laugh at the suggestion that the materials of his art, his colours, clay, marble, or what else he wrought in, might fail and his art come to an end? When we are dealing with qualitative, i. e. artistic, goods, we see at once how an infinite expenditure of labour may be given, an infinite satisfaction taken, from the meagrest quantity of matter and space. In proportion as a community comes to substitute a qualitative for a quantitative standard of living, it escapes the limitations imposed by matter upon man. Art knows no restrictions of space or size, and in proportion as we attain the art of living we shall be likewise free. <!--section 16, p. 431
— Alexander Alekhine Russian / French chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician 1892 - 1946
Quoted in: Daniel James Brooks (2013) Poetics. Book 1, p. 72.
„Art implies discipline; the more excellent the art, the more rigorous the discipline.“
— Jack Vance, Demon Princes
Quelle: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Palace of Love (1967), Chapter 7 (p. 356)
„Music is the deepest of the arts and deep beneath the arts.“
— E.M. Forster English novelist 1879 - 1970
Harvard University Department of Music, Music and Criticism, A Symposium (May 1947; published 1948, p. 11 https://archive.org/details/musiccriticismsy00symp/page/10)
— Arnold Hauser Hungarian art historian 1892 - 1978
The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999, Chapter IV. The Middle Ages
„Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.“
— William Soutar British poet 1898 - 1943
Diary, 29 August 1932.
Quotation posted with the permission of the National Scottish Library, Edinburgh, Scotland.
