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"Analysis does not transform consciousness."
"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."
"The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware."
"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."
"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
"And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it."
"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."
"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."
"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
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"Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator."
"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
"At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did."
"Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it."
"I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time."
"When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music."
"In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this."
"I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms."
"I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made."
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