Saturday, December 16, 2017
‘What you want to do is kid him.’“ Windless suggested that Le Guardia print a pad of forms reading: "I, Robert Moses, do hereby resign as ________ effective ________ ” and simply hand one to Moses whenever the commissioner threatened to resign.
— Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Friday, December 15, 2017
It reeks of some sort of family disfunction.
— Lily on an office set up in a model kitchen inside Manhattan Cabinets
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Eat the frog.
— Liz, Lily’s Kaplan MCAT course instructor
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Makes me sneeze.
— Sid on bare feet
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
That's the opposite of the advice I gave.
— Martha on Nathan's MFA application advice
Monday, December 11, 2017
The architecture has the great virtue of being scaled down to the size of a good time.
— Architectural Forum on Jones Beach in The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Sunday, December 10, 2017
What if I opened it and it was just a meat freezer.
— Lily on the door out of our apartment
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Ever be realized by the methods of the men in whose ranks he had had once marched?
— Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Friday, December 8, 2017
To be a man and block out the sun longer than expected.
— Gerald, Meteor Shower
Thursday, December 7, 2017
It takes off the lint.
— Woman on uptown 6 train
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
I don’t like any of them.
— D at holiday dinner*
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
The net result of all his work was nothing.
— Robert Caro on Bob Moses’ initial attempt to restructure the patronage system, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Monday, December 4, 2017
We should report it.
— Lily on unsafe condition of leaves falling from high trees in Central Park
Sunday, December 3, 2017
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
— Celine Lombardi quoting her teacher
Saturday, December 2, 2017
or the unrealized potential of an art Object –>
— a bullet point under “(3) What is the critical project of making a pointing,” Notes by Owens and Asha Schechter, Owens, Laura
Friday, December 1, 2017
Which you can't will.
— John Baldessari on #2 "You have to be possessed," A Brief History of John Baldessari
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Good New York instincts.
— David Reinfurt on me grabbing two window seats
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Why are transformers not real?
— Kid to mom on sidewalk
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
She said, "Everyone is going to try to tell you not to do it. Curators, art historians, galleries, collectors, they're all going to make you feel like you're doing something wrong. But you know what, if we all quit making art, they'd all be out of jobs." It was really Team Art. It was cool.
— Eric Palgon, Owens, Laura
Monday, November 27, 2017
Nearly every document and image within it was selected not only to elaborate her history but also to open onto a more general case. At least that was the criterion by which we hoped generousity and scholarship might forstall narcissism and anecdote for its own sake.
— Scott Rothkopf, "Introduction," Owens, Laura
