486 Quotes by Brian Eno

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.