瓦西里·康定斯基曾如此评论勋伯格,他“不是为了创作出一幅‘悦目’或‘迷人’的图画,而是努力把他的主观‘情感’单独置于永恒的形式中”。这句话似乎更适于形容康定斯基的绘画,而并非勋伯格的音乐。康定斯基本人也许并不同意用单纯的“抽象”来描述他创作中的新风格,但不可否认,20世纪以来,“抽象”已逐渐成为现代主义艺术和美学的重要范畴。 Vasily Kandinsky commented Schoenberg in such a way that “not for creating a picture of ’pleasing or charming’, but for trying to put his subjective ’emotion’ alone in an eternal form. ”. This sentence seems more suitable to describe Kandinsky’s painting, rather than Schoenberg’s music. Kandinsky may not agree with a simple “abstract” to describe his new style of creation, but it is undeniable that “abstract” has become an important category of modernist art and aesthetics since the 20th century.