Brian Eno
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1,303 appearances
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
Brian Eno’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We've been told somehow that art is this very important thing that is good for you.
And I think it is, but I don't think it's good for you in that way.
I don't think it necessarily improves you in any moral dimension whatsoever.
I think it's quite possible that, as some people now insist, Picasso was a bit of a shit.
He was more than a bit of a shit.
I mean, a remarkable artist.
I'm going light on him.
Yeah.
But it's funny that we expect that it would be otherwise.
It's because we've sort of imputed a moral dimension to art.
And all I'm saying is that, no, I think it's much more biologically functional than we think it is.
I don't think it's such a spiritual, moral business being an artist.
No.
Have you ever heard of a place in Switzerland, Lausanne, called the Musée de l'Art Brut?
It's the, I think, the greatest museum of outsider art in the world.
So these are people who, none of whom were called artists in their lifetime.
A lot of them were in mental institutions and
They had nothing much else to do, and they painted for their whole lives.
Some of them did it completely in secret.
Nobody even knew until they died that they had been working as artists for their whole life.
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