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John Cage - From the Art category:
When we separate music from life we get art. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Beauty category:
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. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Boredom category:
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Finishing category:
- Forerunners of Modern Music...
A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Freedom category:
We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Health category:
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)
John Cage - From the Ideas category:
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Ideas category:
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Impossibilities category:
If someone says 'can't,' that shows you what to do. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Inspiration category:
People who are not artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Interest category:
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Life category:
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Listening category:
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Love category:
I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Meaning category:
We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Meaning category:
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Music category:
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.' (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Music category:
Music is a means of Rapid Transportation. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Music category:
Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Nature category:
What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Observation category:
Everyone is in the best seat. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Peace category:
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Performance category:
Theater takes place all the time, wherever one is, and art simply facilitates persuading one that this is the case. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Poetry category:
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Possessions category:
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Purpose category:
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Rules category:
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)
John Cage - From the Searching category:
One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Silence category:
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Sleep category:
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Thought category:
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Time category:
We need not destroy the past. It is gone. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Words category:
-Lecture on Nothing...
I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Work category:
Out of the work comes the work. (John Cage)
John Cage - From the Worth category:
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. (John Cage)
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