Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it. Eyvind Kang More Quotes by Eyvind Kang More Quotes From Eyvind Kang I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning. Eyvind Kang penetrate treats sound There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art. Eyvind Kang hopeless dark art