Finds from Powell’s Books in Portland
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At Darmstadt when I wasn't involved with music, I was in the woods looking for mushrooms. One day while I was gathering some Hypholomas that were growing around a stump not far from the concert hall, a lady secretary from the Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik came by and said, "After all, Nature is better than Art."
—John Cage
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At Darmstadt when I wasn't involved with music, I was in the woods looking for mushrooms. One day while I was gathering some Hypholomas that were growing around a stump not far from the concert hall, a lady secretary from the Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik came by and said, "After all, Nature is better than Art."
—John Cage
“I refuse to be converted [by modern art]. The other day one of these ‘artsy artists’ from the Metropolitan in New York was sitting right on this lanai and he did some sketching of this bay. He showed me his finished canvas. I wanted to vomit when he showed me what a sacrilegious abortion he painted of my beautiful Paradise.”
— Edgar Leeteg, father of black velvet painting.
