Choreography Quote by Margaret MacMillan

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

“As Stravinsky says, art is nothing more than placing limits and working against them rigorously … and if we refuse to place them ……

— Robert Wachter

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in…

— Georges Braque

The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work…

— Joseph Campbell

An artistic standpoint - I've watched a lot of ballet and source some inspiration from how they move, connect with each other, and find…

— Nathan Chen

“In fact, had there been less discussion of the syntactical construction of Schoenberg’s music, and more of what it says, people might more readily…

— Malcolm MacDonald

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

— Harrison Birtwistle

As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

— Thomas A. Edison

Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard,…

— George Antheil

When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But…

— Aristide Maillol

“The trombone and side-drums in the chamber music of Stravinsky will do well enough in a very smart house-party where all the conversation is…

— Donald Francis Tovey