"Art is not an object, but a trigger…" — Brian Eno

"Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience."

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236 Quotes by Brian Eno

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I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them…
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the…
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are…
Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set…
Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target…
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for…
Being an artist is a job for life.
Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's…

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for… — Aristotle
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in… — Billie Joe Armstrong
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,… — Karen Armstrong
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov

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