Following is our list of the best Bela Bartok quotes and sayings.
Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means. — Bela Bartok
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. — Bela Bartok
Competitions are for horse, not artist. — Bela Bartok
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing. — Bela Bartok
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure. — Bela Bartok
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach. — Bela Bartok
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