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- 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 it…
- The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
- In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
- I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing…
- Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
- My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.
- All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
- We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
- In the dark, all cats are black.
- All great art is a form of complaint
- Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
- When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are…
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