Igor Stravinsky Quotes About Art
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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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