Our Business In Living Is To Become

Our Business In Living Is To Become Fluent With The Life We Are Living, And Art Can Help This.

What I'm Proposing, To Myself And Other People, Is What I Often Call The Tourist Attitude - That You Act As Though You've Never Been There Before. So That You're Not Supposed To Know Anything About It. If You Really Get Down To Brass Tacks, We Have Never Been Anywhere Before.

So Somebody Has Talent? So What? Dime A Dozen. And We're Overpopulated. Actually We Have More Food Than We Have People And More Art. We've Gotten To The Point Of Burning Food. When Will We Begin To Burn Our Art?

Guy Nearing Told Us It's A Good Idea When Hunting Mushrooms To Have A Pleasant Goal, A Waterfall For Instance, And, Having Reached It, To Return Another Way. When, However, We're Obliged To Go And Come Back By The Same Path, Returning We Notice Mushrooms We Hadn't Noticed Going Out.

One Day When I Was Studying With Schoenberg, He Pointed Out The Eraser On His Pencil And Said, 'this End Is More Important Than The Other.' After Twenty Years I Learned To Write Directly In Ink.