Monday, February 13, 2012
The board is set, the pieces are moving.
— Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Rope-hung exotica.
— David P. Billington, The Tower and the Bridge
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Maybe, that is, he hated the idea of having his work trapped in the amber of historical particulars.
— Alexander Nemerov, "Ground Swell: Edward Hoper in 1939"
Friday, February 10, 2012
It’s just kind of an unwritten maritime rule when you’re at sea.
— Steve Zissou, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Works of art could lift experience out of the commonplace to a realm of meaning that, for me, would otherwise be unreachable.
— Lebbeus Woods, “Why I Became an Architect - Part 2”
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
It can communicate before it is understood.
— T. S. Eliot via The Imaginative Argument
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
If you want to undermine the premise of the project, if you do it intelligently, it’s fine.
— Michael Meredith
Monday, February 6, 2012
It is our provence as art historians to look back and put ideas into context.
— Nicole Elder
Sunday, February 5, 2012
The form controls the forces; and the more clearly the designer can visualize these forces the surer he is of his form.
— David P. Billington, The Tower and the Bridge
Saturday, February 4, 2012
The present does not exist. Only the past and the future exist, and we have a duty to them both.
— Gilbert Highet, Man’s Unconquerable Mind
Friday, February 3, 2012
He is most truly alive when he thinks.
— Gilbert Highet, Man’s Unconquerable Mind
Thursday, February 2, 2012
I have no memory of this place.
— Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
What were you thinking about?
— Terry Benedict, Ocean’s Eleven
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
I like the idea of someone who’s got a gang, a crew.
— Wes Anderson, "Interview with Charlie Rose, 2004"
Monday, January 30, 2012
“I don’t know why they’re numbered in this arbitrary way, but perhaps it’s to give one to understand that the terms of an infinite series can be numbered any way whatever.”
Then, as though thinking out loud, he went on.
“If space is infinite, we are anywhere, at any point in space. If time is infinite, we are at any point in time.”
His musings irritated me.
Then, as though thinking out loud, he went on.
“If space is infinite, we are anywhere, at any point in space. If time is infinite, we are at any point in time.”
His musings irritated me.
— Jorge Luis Borges, “The Book of Sand"
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The ultimate pleasure of architecture is that impossible moment when an architectural act, brought to excess, reveals both the traces of reason and the immediate experience of space.
— Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction
Saturday, January 28, 2012
For whom the present was scarcely more than an indefinite rumor.
— Jorge Luis Borges, “The Man on the Threshold"
Friday, January 27, 2012
Son of a bitch, I’m sick of these dolphins.
— Steve Zissou, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Thursday, January 26, 2012
It occurred to me that this might be the bed used by the resident of the house, whose monstrous anatomy was revealed obliquely by this object in much the way the anatomy of an animal, or a god, may be known by the shadow it casts.
— Jorge Luis Borges, “There Are More Things”
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
If it could be argued that the discourse about art was art and thus could be exhibited as such, the theoretical discourse about space certainly was not space.
— Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Disjunction