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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

John Cage

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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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