"Set up a situation that presents you with……" — Brian Eno
"Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach."
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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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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for…
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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 Beyond Quotes
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
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Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was…
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of…
— Francis Bacon
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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
— Christian Bale
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There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is…
— Christian Bale
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
— Roseanne Barr
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families…
— Gary Bauer
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