At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important.… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
