A Quote by John Cage

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

John Cage

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Artist Beauty Begin Begins Does End Ends

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John Cage
American - Composer
September 5, 1912 - August 12, 1992

Where beauty ends is where the artist begins

Gene Youngblood

Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.

B.K.S. Iyengar

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Roland Barthes

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

Thomas Harris

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Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Krushna is my boyfriend but my life doesn't begin and end with him and neither does his professional career begin and end with me.

Kashmira Shah

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Francois Mauriac

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

Richard Dawkins

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.

Doug Dorst

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Hermann Hesse

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

Elizabeth Moon

An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.