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Make maps, not photos or drawings.

Deleuze + Guattari = Mille Plateaux

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Alvin Curran, Under the Fig Tree (1972) | https://www.discogs.com/Alvin-Curran-Under-The-Fig-Tree/release/2220214

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Annea Lockwood, Piano Garden (1969-70 - Ingatestone, Essex) | Piano Transplants: “Dig a sloping trench and slip an upright piano in sideways so that it is half interred. A small grand piano may be set down amongst bushes etc. Plant fast growing trees and creepers around the pianos. Do not protect against weather and leave the pianos there forever.”

http://www.annealockwood.com/compositions/pianotransplants.htm

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Yun Men said, “I don’t ask you about before the fifteenth day; try to say something about after the fifteenth day.” Yun Men himself answered for everyone, “Every day is a good day.”

Sixth Case in The Blue Cliff Record: Yun Men’s Every Day is a Good Day.

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Misty rain on Mount Lu, And waves surging in Che Kiang; When you have not been there, Many a regret you have; But once there and homeward you went, How matter-of-fact things look! Misty rain on Mount Lu, And waves surging in Che Kiang.

Su Shi (1037-1101)

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It is in bad taste to have too much furniture in your home, too many pens at your inkstone, too many Buddhas in the holy chamber, too many rocks, plants, and trees in your garden, too many sons and grandsons in your house, to be too diffuse when you meet any one, or to use too many words in your written prayers. But there is nothing unseemingly in putting many books on your wheeling bookstand, or much dust upon the dustheap.

Urabe Kenkō, Tsurezuregusa.

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“Water Walk, because it contains water and beacause I walk during its performance.” — John Cage performing "Water Walk" in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.

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No purposes. Sounds.

John Cage, Silence

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I can't undersand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones.

John Cage, Conversing with John Cage

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It's not a negation. It's a celebration.

Robert Rauschenberg in 1999 about “Erased de Kooning Drawing” (1953).

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Robert Rauschenberg describes the story and process behind "Erased de Kooning" (1953), a piece based on a work originally created by artist Willem de Kooning.

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Merce Cunningham + John Cage | 1972 | Photo : James Klosty

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They ask what the purpose of art is. Is that how things are? Say there were a thousand artists and one purpose, would one artist be having it and all the nine hundred and ninety-nine others missing the point?

John Cage, Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)