Quotes: Morton Feldman

"When he did find the time to compose, Feldman employed a strategy that John Cage taught him – it was "the most important advice anybody ever gave me," Feldman told a lecture audience in 1984. "He said that it's a very good idea that after you write a bit, stop and then copy it. Because while you're copying it, you're thinking about it, and it's giving you other ideas. And that's the way I work. And it's marvellous, just wonderful, the relationship between working and copying." 

–– Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American composer 

Source: Mason Currey. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013; p. 15. 

via Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2014, p. 107.

Quotes: John Cage

"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot."

–– John Cage (1912-1992), American composer, writer and artist 

Source: John Cage, "Experimental Music," 1957 in Sarah Urist Green. You are an Artist, (e-book) p. 74

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2019 i, 2020, p. 35..

Quotes: John Cage

"If a thing can be said, it can be said simply."

–– John Cage (1912-1992), American composer, writer and artist 

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 13.

Quotes: John Cage

"I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing."

–– John Cage (1912-1992), American composer, writer and artist 

via: Sketchbook A (oatmeal), 2015, p. 13 

Quotes: John Cage

"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing."

–– John Cage (1912-1992), American composer, writer and artist 

via: Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 117

Quotes 355: John Cage

"What I really believe, is perfectly clear by my actions. Since a mistake is beside the point, an error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a conception to actuality."

–– John Cage (1912-1992), American composer, writer and artist

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 136 

Quotes 348: John Cage

"Complicate your garden so it's surprising, like uncultivated land." 

–– John Cage (1912-1992), American composer, writer and artist

via Sketchbook 10, 2010, p. 12