Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? - Igor Stravinsky. View more images...

Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning - Igor Stravinsky. View more images...

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. - Igor Stravinsky. View more images...

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? - Igor Stravinsky . View more images...

What force is more potent than love? - Igor Stravinsky . View more images...

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. - Igor Stravinsky. View more images...

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 Stravinsky. View more images...