Art Quote by John Cage Download Open image “Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences.” — John Cage ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Divine Influence Mind Psychology Quiet
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. — John Cage Copy Share Image
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
Art has the power to influence and to make you react to something that you normally wouldn't concern, worry, or even think about or… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe. — Tyler Cowen 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
