CAGE: I like the Marcel...

CAGE: I like the Marcel Duchamp directive. The way he expressed it, if I can remember correctly, is “To reach the impossibility of transferring from one like image to another the memory imprint.” In other words, to come to the point of living like a tourist.

—John Cage on experiencing life, and thus art, in the present, from an interview with Brian Eno. Musician: A Meeting Of Sound Minds