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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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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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Each moment presents what happens.
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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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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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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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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?
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