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

'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…

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees,…

I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you wo…

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art, there is no doubt, indeed, but the minute painter would be more apt to succeed; but it is not the eye, …

A fictive covering Weaves always glistening from the heart and mind.

What the artist wishes to do - as far as you are concerned - is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.