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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
Igor Stravinsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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I live neither in the past nor in the future. 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.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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I never understood the need for a live audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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