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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Igor Stravinsky

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Artist Oneself Simplicity Truffle
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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Always Art Honesty Judgement Public Work
To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Back Oneself Path
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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Creation Distance God Music Separate
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Animal Artist
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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Diamond Failure Knowledge Perfection World
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Life Lyrics Music Nature
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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End Music Pieces Song
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Man Music Present Realization
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Art Chaos One Liner

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

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