Friday, June 5, 2020
A director is an Auteur of a movie, but Feige is proving to be the Auteur of a company, and maybe of the entire industry. Art doesn't die in the age of Global Capitalism; it just gets bigger, and stranger.
— Fritz Swanson, "My Response to Martin Scorsese, unpacked for Jason"
Thursday, June 4, 2020
In King's tradition there were no proofs, only witnesses.
— Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
So the question is how can we continue sharing but do it in an effective way? We have to think about our target audience (the oppressor) and where they hang out virtually. We have to use their hashtags to meet them virtually.
— @sa.liine
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
"There is no such thing as a normal period of history," Robinson said. "Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks."
— Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Monday, June 1, 2020
Can mine be a birdhouse?
— Lily on her gravestone
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Then came the seemingly eternal round of lobbying public officials, filing forms, waiting for environmental impact studies, speaking at hearings, rallying support. All of this, Christo insisted, was part of the art work.
— William Grimes, "Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale, Dies at 84," The New York Times
Saturday, May 30, 2020
But Keynes recognized that money was not only a mechanism for transmitting information about the relative values of different goods; it was also a store of value, which enabled people to make and express judgments about their own material security through time... "The importance of money essentially flows from its being a link between the present and the future."
— Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Friday, May 29, 2020
The book is difficult and obscure becasue he wanted it to be. And its sheer ugliness created a small industry of interpreters, some of whom enjoyed distinguished careers and won Nobel Prizes just by simplifying or interpreting sections of the book.
— Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Thursday, May 28, 2020
"We were just in a position to afford Shakespeare at the moment when he presented himself!" Keynes wrote.
— Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
This... ...Is Why.
— Caption on image juxtoposition of officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck and Colin Kaepernick kneeling on a football field
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
It was not the power of Keynes' argument that propelled the book to such wild success. It was the vicious, detailed personal portraits of the Great Men he lambasted.
— Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Monday, May 25, 2020
The point is, although artists comprise the majority of people subjected to Jessica's PR stunts, we aren't the intended audience for them.
— Brad Troemel, "THE HUSTLE REPORT"
Sunday, May 24, 2020
What a little creep.
— Lily on Dumbledore holding Voldemort in a ball of water
Saturday, May 23, 2020
A convertible painted with dots to match the owners' Dalmation.
— Alan Brinkley, The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
Friday, May 22, 2020
Actually, in spite of everything, you're a very conventional man.
— Jennifer Melfi, "Amour Fou," The Sopranos
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Bricks are good because they have a scale.
— David
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
"People just aren't interesting in the mass," Luce once said. "It's only individuals who are exciting."
— Alan Brinkley, The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
According to this argument, Duchamp realized that he could never hope to compete on equal terms with his older brothers, much less with Picasso and Braque, and so he coolly and cynically set out to change the rules of the game.
— Calvin Tomkins, Duchamp
Monday, May 18, 2020
When you've proved it can do everything, it reduces your interest when people produce a particular configuration.
— John Conway via Siobhan Roberts, Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway
Sunday, May 17, 2020
What's facinating about the rule governing the game, for Conway as the inventor, anyway, is that it's totally stupid. Yet it exists. "I'll tell you what interests me abou this—it's really what interests me about mathematics. Nobody else in the whole history of the world has been stupid enough to invent this rule. That's the first thing. But then, if they had, they would find exactly the behavior that I'm finding... This rule hadn't physically existed in any sense in the world before a month ago, before I invented it, but it sort of intellectually existed forever."
— Siobhan Roberts, Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway
