Saturday, February 25, 2012
The hand is an organ of speech.
— Moshe Barasch, Giotto and the Language of Gesture
Friday, February 24, 2012
It’s almost as simple as the formula of a circle.
Why shouldn’t the result be as simple as a circle?
A formula can be very simple and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
Why shouldn’t the result be as simple as a circle?
A formula can be very simple and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
— Benoît Mandelbrot, They Were There
Thursday, February 23, 2012
For me, that process feels really artificial.
— M.Arch. Student
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
A reader is reading this.
— Nicole Elder
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Be able to think about space without attaching a particular function to it.
— M.Arch. Student Juror
Monday, February 20, 2012
I can recommend a book or a poem or a painting, but I can’t explain love.
— Charlie Brown
Sunday, February 19, 2012
It’s an infinite number of solutions.
— Maria Garlock
Saturday, February 18, 2012
There can be no optimum in structures.
— David P. Billington, The Tower and the Bridge
Friday, February 17, 2012
Because we have to chase him.
— James Gordon, The Dark Knight
Thursday, February 16, 2012
The fourth, the fifth.
— Jeff Buckley, “Hallelujah”
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Endlessness objectivity.
— Random Stranger
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Maybe we should always go from the end to the beginning.
— Michael Meredith
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