John Cage Quotes

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

I've tried to be open to what's going on and paying close attention, not letting things that inspire me to pass me by.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.

Everything is interesting to me.

I'm full of curiosity.

I'm interested in everything.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Everything interests me.

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

I always want to know about things.

I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged.

I simply liked looking at the world around us.