"Rather than a visual event, the work of art is defined as 'patterns of thought.'"

—Christel Stalpaert and Karolien Byttebier, Art and Ecology: Scenes from a Tumultuous Affair

"desire and interest to shift my professional attention from articulation and output of the creative process to the receptive side [...] a lot of the answers to our contemporary problems can be found in a renewed form of listening to the environment, our social behavior, and our inner subjectivity in a process of a 'resingularization.'"

—Guy Cools, The Art of Listening