John Cage Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• All great art is a form of complaint

  John Cage

  Art, Form, Complaints

• Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

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  Art, Helping, Fluent

  John Cage (1970). “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

  Art, Past, Ideas

• Art is whatever you can get away with.

  John Cage

  Art, Get Away, Art Is

• When we separate music from life we get is art.

  John Cage

  Art, Separation

  "Silence: Lectures and Writings".

• Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

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  Music, Art, Mind

  "Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind". Book by John Cage, 2007.

• People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

  John Cage

  Art, Inspiration, People

• An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

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  Art, Moving, Before Death

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

• The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences.

  John Cage

  Art, Nature, Science

• Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

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  Art, Theatre, Cases

  John Cage (1961). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.174, Wesleyan University Press

• The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

  John Cage

  Art, Mind, Quiet

  "Music Age".

• Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

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  Art, Design, Trying

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.39, Wesleyan University Press

• 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?

  John Cage

  Art, People, Dimes

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.1, Wesleyan University Press

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