Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. — John Cage Copy Share Image
The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences. — John Cage Copy Share Image
People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to… — John Cage Copy Share Image
An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other… — John Cage Copy Share Image
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and… — John Cage Copy Share Image
When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins. — John Cage Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting. — John Cage Copy Share Image
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day… — John Cage Copy Share Image
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… — John Cage Copy Share Image
It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room… — John Cage Copy Share Image
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art.… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“...the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access… — John Cage Copy Share Image
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — John Cage Copy Share Image
To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake… — John Cage Copy Share Image
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. — John Cage Copy Share Image
People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired. — John Cage Copy Share Image
![“It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they…” quote by John Cage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/153/john-cage-2094_blood_it-was-at-harvard-not-quite-forty-years_56114.jpg)
