"The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a similar situation of how to produce it and place it so that it works in a space. The first consideration is adopting the space and having work that resonates in the space."

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Source : Source: www.artpractical.com

Pauline Oliveros

#Skills Quotes #Space Quotes #Listening Quotes

“For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its most rational defense. Your task is to ensure that there is enough bread on the tables of mankind, and not to encourage an artificial control of births, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.”
“Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.”
“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”
“My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.”

Source : James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr
“The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.”
“Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.”
“Irish is a leprechaun language.”

Source : "Irish Language Being Used as Political Football" by Jim Gibney, republican-news.org. October 10, 2007.
“I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.”

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