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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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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.
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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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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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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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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.
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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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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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