Igor Stravinsky Quote

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (ed. Harvard University Press, 1970) - ISBN: 9780674678569