Quote by Brian Eno
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great pa

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. – Brian Eno

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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. – Brian Eno

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People do dismiss ambient music, dont they? They call it easy listening, as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. – Brian Eno

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I think were about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. – Brian Eno

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I was very much into buying contemporary art, but Ive just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that its not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. – Sylvester Stallone

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Many say an art dealer running a museum is a conflict of interest. But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest. – Jerry Saltz

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The work of art is a scream of freedom. – Christo

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Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. – Jerry Saltz

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