Collaboration with materials

[John] Cage argued that the artist should not speak to his or her audience about the natural world, but should instead use art to heighten the audience member's sensitivity to experiences of all kinds.

Robert Rauschenberg: "And I'm opposed to the whole idea of conception-execution—of getting an idea for a picture and then carrying it out. I've always felt as though, whatever I've used and whatever I've done, the method was always closer to a collaboration with materials than to any kind of conscious manipulation and control.'

for them, the making of art had become the building of systems of pattern and randomness, and thus, in Claude Shannon's sense, of information.

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"You do not have the right to use this art form to feel inferior."
- Martin de Maat

Most people lose their talent at puberty. I lost mine in my early twenties. I began to think of children not as immature adults, but of adults as atrophied children.

- Keith Johnstone, Impro

The problem with innovation is that you can't predict it. That's what innovation means -- the stuff we haven't thought of yet. Great innovations are ridiculous at the time of invention, startling on implementation, and obvious in hindsight.
- Cory Doctorow, The Street Finds its Own Use for the Law of Unintended Consequences