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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

— Brian Eno A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

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The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

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Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."

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If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result.

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