As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
BRIAN ENOEditing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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