The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else. - Brian Eno 1 Share Now -
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement. - Brian Eno 2 Share Now -
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of a characteristic of the way I've worked ever since I started. - Brian Eno 3 Share Now -
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. - Brian Eno 4 Share Now -
Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people. - Brian Eno 5 Share Now -
I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren't historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before. - Brian Eno 6 Share Now -
I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me. - Brian Eno 8 Share Now -
I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's. - Brian Eno 9 Share Now -
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. - Brian Eno 10 Share Now -
