Pasticheur Quotes & Sayings

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination. — Terence McKenna

A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent
if he acts normal. — Judith Viorst

Estrangement and belonging, an effect of distance and closeness at the same time. — Elena Ferrante

While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only an operator, a producer, a scriptor, or a pasticheur. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau

But everyone joins a band in this life. Only some of them play music. — Mitch Albom

You can't throw too much style into a miracle. — Mark Twain

I was ... attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love. — Igor Stravinsky