Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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