Igor Stravinsky Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Art, Creativity

  "The Apollonian Clockwork". Book by Louis Andriessen, 1983.

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Architecture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Opposites, Chaos

• To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Philosophy, Hell

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1969). “Retrospectives and Conclusions”

• An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Artist, Pigs

• It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Reality, Self

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1969). “Retrospectives and Conclusions”

• Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Joy, Needs

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

• 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

  Art, Judging, Criticism

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.87, Harvard University Press

• The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Art Is, Controlled

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