Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinskywas a Russian-French-American composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth17 June 1882
CityLomonosov, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
music men order
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
age negative different
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.
art philosophy hell
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
ignorance cutting perfect
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
dream inspiration artist
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.
confused imagination invention
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
self execution precision
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
work food inspiration
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
love force
What force is more potent than love?
music ducks effort
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
funny music witty
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
childhood waiting moments
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
long age pressure
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
love marriage order
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?