“Originally we had in mind what you might call an imaginary beauty, a process of basic emptiness with just a few things arising in it. . . . And then when we actually set to work, a kind of avalanche came about which corresponded not at all with that beauty which had seemed to appear to us as an objective.
Where do we go then? . . . Well what we do is go straight on; that way lies, no doubt, a revelation. I had no idea this was going to happen. I did have an idea something else would happen. Ideas are one thing and what happens another.”
— John Cage, “Where are we going? And what are we doing?”
“John Cage and Experimental Art: The Anarchy of Silence” at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
Source: http://rosewhitemusic.com/piano/writings/silence-taught-john-cage/