Monday, June 24, 2024
No anecdote better epitomizes this paradox than the one recounted about Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein. When confronted by someone who claimed that the portrait didn't look anything like Stein, Picasso said with imposing confidence: “It will.”
— Philip Gefter, What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
Sunday, June 23, 2024
One of the threads running through the history of the medium is the redefinition of meaningful content. Photographers find meaning in something where it hadn't been recognized before, and then, over time, that content itself becomes a convention. And when it becomes a convention, it lacks the immediacy of the original picture.
— Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
Saturday, June 22, 2024
We made a lot of money. We made George a lot of money. We made a lot of people a lot of money. Made lots of people happy. Made lots of people forget the mundane, enjoy themselves for an afternoon or a day. Hopefully, it means something to him.
— Jeffrey Baldwin, Ren Faire
Friday, June 21, 2024
The relationship of content to form—a relationship that underpins all art.
— Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
Thursday, June 20, 2024
The choices she made in -filling- each page with words and different ideas, like a garden plot, or 🥧 pie, intrigue me.
— @brevigrapher on Hester Thrale’s notebook "Minced Meat for Pyes"
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Hammershoi is not one of those who need to be talked about quickly. His work is long and slow, and whensoever one studies it, that moment will always be an occasion for speaking about the important and essential in art.
— Rainer Maria Rilke via @richardmcguirehere
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
"What Jim wants to do is matter," Frey says. "He wanted a life that meant something."
— Gregory Zuckerman, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Monday, June 17, 2024
How did alphabet books deal with the letter X before the rise of x-rays and xylophones? We've picked out some of the best examples.
— @publicdomainrev
Sunday, June 16, 2024
What a day for a daydreamin' boy.
— The Lovin' Spoonful, "Daydream"
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Imagine being a cow and urinary incontinence wouldn't matter. Those lucky lucky girls.
— Lily looking at cows
Friday, June 14, 2024
They're not going to get hit by lightning and if they do they're insured. I think seals are cheap.
— Lily on seals potentially getting hit by lighting at the Central Park Zoo
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Me?
— Aardman Animations, Wat's Pig
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
In almost every picture' no. 9, about a family struggling to photograph their black dog
— @erik.kessels
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
And I'm so tired
I'm oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, so tired
But I'm trying to keep my customer satisfied,
Satisfied
— Simon & Garfunkel, "Keep the Customer Satisfied"
Monday, June 10, 2024
By the end of the decade of the '70s, the formal questions which had propelled my work for years stopped arising. As you might imagine, George, this was scary.
— Stephen Shore, Modern Instances
Sunday, June 9, 2024
And see that below one disassembling world lies the ruins of another disassembled world.
— James Hutton, Kevin Huizenga, The River at Night
Saturday, June 8, 2024
You know that there are
You know that there are
— Yusuf / Cat Stevens, "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out"
Friday, June 7, 2024
Two considerations dissuaded him: the realization that the task was interminable, and the realization that it was pointless. He saw that by the time he died he would still not have finished classifying all the memories of his childhood.
— Jorge Luis Borges, "Funes, His Memory"
Thursday, June 6, 2024
And yet he aspired to this level of transparency. He says that we should imagine someone asking “What’s going on right now in your mind?” without warning and that we should be able to answer truthfully without feeling the need to blush.
— Donald Robertson, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom
— Little Richard, "Tutti Frutti"
