Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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What force is more potent than love?
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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