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Artist Quotes by Igor Stravinsky
- What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators....
- An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
- 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…
- One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
- Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
- 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…
- Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
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- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
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