"Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Next - to change the position of the object. - Rauschenberg's early sculptures - A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden - The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden)..."

-- Jasper Johns

#Garden Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Space Quotes

“I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.”
“And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.”

Source : Friedrich Schleiermacher (1836). “Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato”, p.173
“When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?”
“Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.”
“I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second”
“I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.”

Source : "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.
“The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.”
“An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.”

Source : Donald J Cram, Jane M Cram (2007). “Container Molecules and Their Guests”, p.1, Royal Society of Chemistry

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