An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
-
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
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 STRAVINSKY -
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
To continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY