My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor StravinskyRead
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Invention requires imagination, but they are not the same thing.
Igor Stravinsky highlights the distinction between imagination and invention in this quote. While invention relies on the creative capacity of imagination to conceive new ideas, it involves a practical application and realization of those ideas, emphasizing that creative thought is a precursor to tangible innovation rather than synonymous with it.
Themes
InventionImaginationCreativityInnovationArt
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech about the importance of creativity in technology, one might reference this quote to emphasize the role of imagination in driving innovation.
More from Igor Stravinsky
All quotes →Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
Igor StravinskyRead
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor StravinskyRead
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
Igor StravinskyRead
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
Igor StravinskyRead
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
Igor StravinskyRead
Similar quotes
he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.
J. R. R. TolkienRead
A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.
Samuel FullerRead
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
Oscar WildeRead
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Edward AlbeeRead
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
Isabel AllendeRead
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
Nassim Nicholas TalebRead