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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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