"I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head."
-Brian Eno
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"The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.“
-Brian Eno
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
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"I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind."
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"If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas."
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"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."
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"When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'"
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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