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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Igor Stravinsky

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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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What force is more potent than love?
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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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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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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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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