The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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