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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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