5 John Cage Quotes on Art

John Cage quotes on art

1. A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

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

8. 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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10. I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.

11. If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical, it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.