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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Igor Stravinsky

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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Burn Money Worth
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Confusion Imagination Invention
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
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Artist Greatness Potential Steal
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Creation Invention Music Name
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Goodness Himself Imitation Steal
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry Myself Time
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Freedom Oneself Perspective Restriction
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Comment Music Pieces True
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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Live Memories Myself True Wonder
It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Feeling Generation Nature Way
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Beginning Eat Inspiration Work
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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Artistic Oneself Pride Reason Talent
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
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
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation One Liner
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
The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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Challenge Development Performance Threat
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Alone Art Close Hell Philosophy
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Close Eyes Symbol Yourself
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Artist Himself Imitation Reality
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Instrument Live Music Play Silence
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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