"Rationality is what we do to organize the……" — Brian Eno
"Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process."
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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…
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
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When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the…
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are…
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Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set…
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Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target…
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Being an artist is a job for life.
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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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More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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