the unnamable

Sentences on Conceptual Art
16. If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature; numbers are not mathematics.

The Heliocentric Pantheon: An Interview with Walter Murch
Think how difficult it would be to explain musical notation to someone from Ancient Egypt, when they did not even suspect the underlying mathematical laws of harmonics, let alone a way of writing it all down. Instead, for thousands of years, music was just a poetic metaphor […]