Igor Stravinsky Quotes About Inspiration

Quotes about: Inspiration

• Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Work, Food, Inspiration

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

• The 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 Stravinsky

  Inspiration, Men, Profound

• A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspiration, House, Architect

• The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Dream, Inspiration, Artist

  "Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons". Book by Igor Stravinsky, 1947.

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