David Given Schwarm

I was permitted to hear an incredible music…I heard teh gestation of the new wrold…the sound of stars grinding and chafing, of fountains clotted with blazing gems…Music is planetary fire, and irreducible which is all sufficient; it is the slate-writing of the gods.

Close scrutiny is the governing principle of Minimalist art. Once you have seen the infinitely complex in the seemingly simple, you are far better equipped to observe the obviously complex.

I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep. … Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same…