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, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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Some control is needed for coherence.
'Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.'
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
'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…
We had a dim premonition that power-mad gangsters would one day use art itself as a way of deadening men's minds.
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?
Dogmatists of all kinds-scientific, economic, moral, as well as political-are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevita…