Nelzen

“A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. The verdict on it lies in this nature of its origin: there is no other.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“My existence does not come from my antecedents, nor from my physical and social surroundings; it moves out toward them and sustains them. For I am the one who brings into being for myself – and thus into being in the only sense that the word could have for me – this tradition that I choose to take up or this horizon whose distance from me would collapse were I not there to sustain it with my gaze (since this distance does not belong to the horizon as one of its properties).”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

“In the Museum garden

Empty chairs:
the statues have gone back
to the other museum.”
― George Seferis, Collected Poems

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
― John Cage”
― John Cage