Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
John Cage
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
Jr.
John Milton
Jr. Cage
J. C.
Everything
Grateful
Looks
Interested
World
Close
Eyes
Eye
Around
Become
Look
Curious
More quotes by John Cage
A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
We only hear what we listen for.
John Cage
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
John Cage
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
John Cage
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
John Cage
When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
John Cage
Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
John Cage
In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
John Cage
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
John Cage
No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
John Cage
Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
John Cage
Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
John Cage
Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
John Cage
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
John Cage
When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
John Cage
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
John Cage
We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
John Cage
Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
John Cage
...we make our lives by what we love.
John Cage
