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
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
“Whereas what we need is to fumble around in the darkness, because that's where our lives (not necessarily all of the time,… — John Cage Copy Share Image
If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of… — John Cage Copy Share Image
People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens… — John Cage Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear.… — 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
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
