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attractively disinteresting

“The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.” — John Cage

always changing

“Contemporary music is not the music of the future nor the music of the past, but simply music present with us… we can’t tell what it is because it is always changing. Like life it changes.” — John Cage, Silence, p. 43

Stéphane Mallarmé

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

— Stéphane Mallarmé

"Wäre jemand imstande, ein Buch über Ethik zu schreiben, das wirklich ein Buch über Ethik wäre, so würde dieses Buch mit einem Knall sämtliche anderen Bücher auf der Welt vernichten."

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Vortrag über Ethik

"Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery."

— Stéphane Mallarmé

"An artist should please himself only especially if he cannot please anyone else."

— Patrick Mimran