What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYArt postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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