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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI 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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYArt is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMediocrity borrows, genius steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYOne has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIt’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKYArt postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY