The true creator may be ...

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
 Igor Stravinsky

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Quotes from the same author

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
 Igor Stravinsky
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
 Igor Stravinsky
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.
 Igor Stravinsky
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.
 Igor Stravinsky
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
 Igor Stravinsky