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
art judging criticism
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.
real artist giving
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators....
art reality self
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.
art art-is controlled
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
art artist pigs
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
art philosophy hell
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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.
art joy needs
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
pride talent artistic
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
inspiring art architecture
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
art opposites chaos
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
simple artist people
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love.
artist pigs noses
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
bring cannot present serve truth
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.