Re: [microsound] Cage and buddhism

[Guillaume Grenier <gollum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/12/00 22:41, m said in living color:

>>> In a sense, Cage's absorption of Asian values was a form of appropriation.
>> 
>> How can expansive creative consciousnesses - in attempting to
>> hybridize or synthesize - not appropriate?
> 
> I was told as a young man, in reference to the issue of artists
> originality, "the mediocre borrow, the great steal!"

I think the original quote is "Good artists borrow, great ones steal".

I think it was by Picasso. Or is it Stravinsky?

g.

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