Arnold Schoenberg quote: "I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words."

I was a painter, perhaps, but I am not any longer a painter. I didn't paint for many, many years - b...
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

At this time I was able to draw a circle which deviated very little from when you checked it with a ...
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, For they will come into being together
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composers in a conventional or ...
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for stri...
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether th...
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.
HAROLD SCHOENBERG

This advisory board is so political that sometimes they won't make the obvious decision in favor of ...
E. RANDOL SCHOENBERG

The arbitrators wanted us to keep it confidential, but the news leaked.
E. RANDOL SCHOENBERG

It's a decision the whole family has to make; there are four other heirs, we haven't wanted to count...
E. RANDOL SCHOENBERG

The big question for Yahoo, actually for both parties, is whether we're going to take this to the Su...
E. RANDOL SCHOENBERG

Just because someone sues you in a foreign country doesn't mean you can come here and sue them.
E. RANDOL SCHOENBERG

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's eco...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

The road to success is always under construction.
ARNOLD PALMER

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, bu...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
ARNOLD PALMER

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
ARNOLD PALMER

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
ARNOLD PALMER

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular f...
MALCOLM ARNOLD

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep...
MALCOLM ARNOLD

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there ...
MALCOLM ARNOLD

I don't see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I've done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I d...
ARNOLD PALMER

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it t...
EBERHARD ARNOLD

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
EDDY ARNOLD

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, no...
EDDY ARNOLD

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs aga...
EDDY ARNOLD

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
EDDY ARNOLD

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
EDDY ARNOLD

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

I'll be back.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each...
ARNOLD NEWMAN

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put al...
ARNOLD NEWMAN

The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he wor...
ARNOLD NEWMAN

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
EVE ARNOLD

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

The winners at the Olympics step up, bursting with pride, because everything that they have worked f...
ARNOLD PALMER

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on n...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possi...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the sa...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny...
ARNOLD PALMER

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE

Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Liv...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love w...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge...
ARNOLD PALMER

As my father taught me, and he drove home that point, he said, 'Just remember something. You don...
ARNOLD PALMER

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
ARNOLD PALMER

If it bleeds, we can kill it.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent...
GEORGE ARNOLD

Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choo...
EDWIN ARNOLD

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your...
OREN ARNOLD

Dear God,
I pray for patience.
And I want if RIGHT NOW!
OREN ARNOLD

Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a ...
OREN ARNOLD

Dear God, I pray for patience.And I want if RIGHT NOW!
OREN ARNOLD

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kin...
OREN ARNOLD

Criticism is more effective when it sounds like praise.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

Money doesn't make happiness, it buys it already made.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like tha...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy.
THOMAS ARNOLD

Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.
ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a gr...
ARNOLD PALMER

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion fr...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the c...
ARNOLD GLASGOW

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be...
ARNOLD BENNETT

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the mag...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great acc...
ARNOLD GLASGOW

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
ARNOLD BENNETT

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your...
ARNOLD PALMER

You must play boldly to win.
ARNOLD PALMER

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying;...
ARNOLD PALMER

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can ...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
ARNOLD PALMER

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

The future is the past returning through another gate.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun...
THOMAS ARNOLD

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just ...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden a...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to mak...
THOMAS ARNOLD

We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's var...
ARNOLD BENNETT

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
ARNOLD BENNETT

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Al...
ARNOLD BENNETT

'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly sti...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv...
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD

What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduc...
THOMAS ARNOLD

Make your life a mission-not an intermission.
ARNOLD GLASGOW

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The g...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God
EBERHARD ARNOLD

You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked ...
EBERHARD ARNOLD

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret func...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, ...
THOMAS ARNOLD

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

If we become completely whole-hearted we will have love for all people and will seek in each person ...
EBERHARD ARNOLD

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
ARNOLD BAX

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they're no...
ARNOLD GLASGOW

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
EBERHARD ARNOLD

The living need charity more than the dead.
GEORGE ARNOLD

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
ARNOLD BENNETT

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say onl...
ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life ...
THOMAS ARNOLD

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...
THOMAS ARNOLD

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just oursel...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather t...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera...
ARNOLD BENNETT

We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, t...
EBERHARD ARNOLD

The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder pas...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
ARNOLD GLASOW

Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your he...
OREN ARNOLD

The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea!
EDWIN ARNOLD

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.
EDWIN ARNOLD

I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair; And they, that lovely face...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control...
ARNOLD SCHOPENHAUER

IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ....
KEVIN ARNOLD

That's got to be the ultimate goal, ... that's what everybody wants to see done in the end.
KEVIN ARNOLD

I think [the digital services] will be pushing the majors to get it done in the next few years,
KEVIN ARNOLD

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want ...
KEVIN ARNOLD

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
KEVIN ARNOLD

Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even...
EDWIN ARNOLD

We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as ...
EDWIN ARNOLD

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission
ARNOLD BENNETT

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must b...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
ARNOLD BENNETT

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
ARNOLD BENNETT

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and supe...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the...
ARNOLD BENNETT

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "T...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of av...
ARNOLD BENNETT

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to l...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan
ARNOLD BENNETT

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well ...
ARNOLD BENNETT

He who died at Azan sends This to comfort all this friends: Faithful friends! It lies I know ...
EDWIN ARNOLD

Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye wi...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say on...
ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH

Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
EDWIN ARNOLD

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
EDWIN ARNOLD

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder
EBERHARD ARNOLD

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
ARNOLD BENNETT

I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Brave...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a l...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

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Arnold Schoenberg

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Arnold Schoenberg

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