“Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. … Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value — a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.”

— Arnold Schoenberg

"An Artistic Impression" (1909) in Style and Idea (1985), p. 190
before 1930

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