Brian Eno Arrow Quotations

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.