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

— Brian Eno A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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