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“the making of them doesn’t appear to be anything special. There are no secrets or mysteries as to what the objects are; the puzzle is in confronting such simple but unusual objects and in trying to understand what about them seems so strange. This is the contrast in Hesse’s work that most interests me: the contrast between simultaneous obviousness... See more

“I do think there is a state of quality that is necessary, but it is not based on correctness. It has to do with the quality of the piece itself and nothing to do with neatness or edges. It’s not the artisan quality of the work, but the integrity of the piece . . . I’m not conscious of materials as a beautiful essence . . . For me the great involve... See more

“A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.”

John Cage :: An Autobiographical Statement

https://www.johncage.org/autobiographical_statement.html

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When art, which was the common language of social inaction, becomes independent art in the modern sense, emerging from its original religious universe and becoming individual production of separate works, it too experiences the movement that dominates the history of the entirety of separate culture. The affirmation of its independence is the beginn... See more

“an art work is neither a physical thing nor a viewer’s mental image of it but something in between, created in attentive space”

The Battle for Attention

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-battle-for-attention

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