Cage and Johns on the sound of not saying

Unless we go to extremes we won’t get anywhere

- John Cage

We say one thing is not another thing

Or sometimes we say it is

Or we say “they are the same.”

- Jasper Johns (Sketchbook Notes)

(T)here is something which is, so to speak, nothing;

and moreover, a nothing which has nothing in it.

That’s what the nothing in between is.

- John Cage (for the Birds)