Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

There is creation in the eye.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.