"Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible."

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[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality

— Anton Webern