Igor Stravinsky Art Quotations

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

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.

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.

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

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.