The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

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.