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The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Another Art Art World Good Good Idea Idea Never Smart Thing World

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The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can be.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Afford Art Cases Excursion Fine Fine Art Go Life Look Make Most Music Own Part People Problem Really Special The Problem With Way

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Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Always Any Art Been Before Conversation Experience Having Latest Line Long Looking Our Painting Seen Though Way You

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I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Art Between Both Fact In Fact Lot Need People Religion Same Same Thing Similarity Specifically Surrender Tap Thing Think Try Very Want I Think

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One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Art Make One Of The Things Piece Rather Things Try World You

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If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Art Assured Being Both Clutter Continue Fashion Just Just One More Mounting Must Nevertheless Object Point Pursuing Some Specific Than Think Vision Where Work World I Think

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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Actual Art Becomes Beyond Boundaries Breaking Even Experimentation Failure Limit Mere Point Preoccupied Seem Transgression Which Work Would

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Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Art Deeply Feel Human Makes Music Science Us

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And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

~Brian Michael Bendis

Topics: Accident Almost Art Artist Because Deciding Had How Illustrator Living Make Store Tutor Wanted Worked

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I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

~Brian Schmidt

Topics: Aesthetic Always Around Art Cosmos Explore Fundamental Grounds Job Just Know Level Like Music People Philosophy Pure Scientist Some Think Universe Us Useful Want Well Where Why You I Think

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