Monday, February 27, 2012
One could bring up different children according to different systems of thought, making certain children believe that two and two do not make four or that the moon is a cheese, then put them together when they are twenty or twenty-five years old; one would then have discussions that would be worth a great deal more than the sermons or lectures on which so much money is spent.
— Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Sunday, February 26, 2012
It leaves the domain of more or less everyday perception and enters that of abstract consciousness.
— Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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.
— 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
