by BRIAN ENO and PETER SCHMIDT" (actually 113 worthwhile dilemmas and four or five blank cards). Published by EG Management, 1975. "a secret in stone", a book of Schmidt's poetry, with drawings by Patrick Hourihan, an edition of 500 copies. Published by Watford School of Art, 1979. Exhibitions Peter Schmidt had exhibitions at: Beaux Arts Gallery, London – 1961 Curwen Gallery, London – 1966 Gallerie Hansjorg Mayer, Stuttgart – 1967 Lisson Gallery, London; Editions Alecto Gallery, London – 1968 Bear Lane Gallery, London; Curwen Gallery, London – 1969 Lisson Gallery, London – 1970 White Chapel Gallery, London – 1975 JPL Fine Arts, "Watercolours", London – 1977 Galerie Shandar, Paris; Galleri Sudurgata 7, Reykjavik; Sundholl Gallery, Isafordor; Caius College Gallery, Cambridge – 1978 Paul Ide Gallery, Brussels; Galleri Sudurgata 7, Reykjavik; Vertshuis Gallery, Flatey – 1979 Paul Ide Gallery (with Brian Eno) "More Than Nothing", Brussels – 1980 Watford Museum, "Remembered Images", Watford – 1987 The Living Art Museum, "Icelandic Landscapes", Reykjavik – 1995 Mummery & Schnelle, "To Become Like Music", London – 2008 Quotes "One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality; a model as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference." Peter Schmidt "In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting." Peter Schmidt "My friend Peter Schmidt used to talk about ‘not doing the things that nobody had ever thought of not doing’, which is an inverse process – where you leave out an assumption that everybody has always made and see what happens (e.g. music has to be made of intentionally produced sounds was the assumption that Cage left out)." Brian Eno, in A Year With Swollen Appendices, p. 178 "He was enigmatic and tried to get us to approach things from different angles. Not however, in an analytical way though he could be very analytical, it was more to do with looking for the mysterious invisible centre of experience." Linda Landers, former student "These cards evolved from our separate observations on the principles underlying what we were doing. Sometimes they were recognized in retrospect (intellect catching up with intuition), sometimes they were identified as they were happening, sometimes they were formulated. They can be used as a pack (a set of possibilities being continuously reviewed in the mind) or by drawing a single card from the shuffled pack when