Dick Higgins Quotes

Dick Higgins was an American composer, poet, printmaker, artist, and a co-founder of Fluxus.

✵ 15. March 1938 – 25. October 1998
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Famous Dick Higgins Quotes

“All form is a process of notation.”

An Exemplativist Manifesto (1976)

“Sound poetry is a fusion of music and literature.”

The Origin of Happenings (1976)
Variant: Concrete poetry is a fusion of visual art and poetry.

“I never feel quite complete unless I'm doing all the arts-visual, musical, literary.”

The Ruud Jansson Mail Interview 1995

“Happenings are a fusion of visual art, music and theatre.”

The Origin of Happenings (1976)

“What truly remains of me Is that very thing- my absence.”

Quoted in 1998 obituary - colophon.com

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