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“I have just read your book [On the Spiritual in Art] from cover to cover, and I will read it once more. I find it pleasing to an extraordinary degree, because we agree on nearly all of the main issues..”

Arnold Schoenberg

In a letter to Wassily Kandinsky, 18 Dec. 1911; as quoted in Schönberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter, by Klaus Kropfinger; edited by Konrad Boehmer; published by Routledge (imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa Group company), 2003, p. 15-16 note 49
1910s

Books , Art , Reading

“Hauer looks for laws. Good. But he looks for them where he will not find them.”

Arnold Schoenberg

"Hauer's Theories" (Notes of 9 May 1923), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 209
1920s

Law

“I find above all that the expression, "atonal music," is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying "the art of not falling," or swimming "the art of not drowning."”

Arnold Schoenberg

"Hauer's Theories" (Notes of November 1923), in Style and Idea (1985), p. 210
1920s

Art , Music , Flying