My work became an exploration of non-intention.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

Nothing more than nothing can be said.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.