Igor Stravinsky Quotes

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

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• Art
• Together
• Nature
• Reality

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  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Art
  • Together