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Igor Stravinsky Quotes about Art

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

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

Igor Stravinsky
Art, Opposites, Chaos

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.

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

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

Igor Stravinsky
Art, Art Is, Controlled

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”

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky
Inspiring, Art, Architecture
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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”

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Igor Stravinsky
Art, Artist, Pigs

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

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