Anything is something

"Coming to be anything is something. Not coming to be anything is something. Loving is something. Not loving is something. Loving is loving. Something is something. Anything is something.

Anything is something. Not coming to anything is something. Loving is something. Needing coming to something is something. Not needing to coming to something is something. Loving is something. Anything is something.

Knowing something is something. Knowing something and not meaning anything is something. Knowing something and not meaning anything and telling that thing is something."

— Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories

Link:
gutenberg.org: Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein. With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein

A canvas is never empty

"A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric. A canvas is never empty."

— Robert Rauschenberg

everything is experiment

"The dead plans of dogmatic innovation must fall before the clear existance of living experiment, and the sectarianism of theoretical 'isms'—those new nests of contemporary fanaticism—will fall."

— Aleksandr Rodschenko (1920)

Silence

"Everything had been said in the saying of nothing."

— Paul Griffiths