Genius Quote by Igor Stravinsky Download Open image “Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.” — Igor Stravinsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Borrows Genius Genius Genius Steals Mediocrity Mediocrity Borrows Stealing Steals
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“As Pablo Picasso (no slouch at theft himself) put it, “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos? — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
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… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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