Thursday, March 1, 2018
The doors were equipped with special secret-rim locks: One had to know how to twist the rim with thumb and forefinger before turning the knob, so that an intruder could find himself suddenly trapped in a maze of ostensibly locked doors.
— Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Well, Donald said the other day in the presence of clients--He said, ''The reason we have Philip Johnson is because if I build his buildings -- probably a terrible building -- but,'' he says, ''if I build this without the name Philip Johnson, nobody ever knows anything about it. If I build the same building with the name Philip Johnson on it, it'll be in The Times, and that's what I want.'' ... And I like him very much. I've never worked with anybody as bright and as quick and as decisive as Donald Trump.
— Philip Johnson after Charlie Rose's question "Now, how much do people-- choose Philip Johnson because they like the name Philip Johnson?, "Philip Johnson 12/20/1994, Charlie Rose
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Monotonously inquisitive young man who was known as “the Sponge."
— Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Monday, February 26, 2018
In former times when learning was confined to the monks and priests, then it was that the world stood still.
— John D. Rockefeller, via Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Ricky, even when I get a haircut I'm an architect.
— Louis Kahn, via You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Saturday, February 24, 2018
As homage.
— Mütter Museum guide on books made from the skin of patients whose lives contributed substantially to research
Friday, February 23, 2018
I have a book of castles and I try to pretend that I did not look at this book but everybody reminds me of it and I have to admit that I looked very thoroughly at this book.
— Louis Kahn, via You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Only a religious man could act with such fearless invention for the sheer need rather than the desire for creation.
— Louis Kahn on Le Corbusier in a letter to Harriet Pattison, via You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Only because I realize that you don't have to divorce yourself from yourself to gain an objective.
— Letter from Oscar Kahn to Louis Kahn, via You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
We don't want these to melt… I have a heavy investment in these.
— Sid on two bananas on top of the microwave
Monday, February 19, 2018
He makes custom bags and then he makes duplicates.
— Kelly
Sunday, February 18, 2018
I thought it was 1985.
— Lily on 1984
Saturday, February 17, 2018
It isn't responsible to be killing your neighbor's bees.
— Dennis vanEngelsdorp, 2018 Winter MSBA Meeting
Friday, February 16, 2018
Far above our poor power to add or detract.
— Abraham Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address," Lincoln Memorial
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Planet Goff.
— David White
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Did I finish it?
— Lily half asleep after getting to page 8 in a book
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
It's like a birdwatching but someone made the bird.
— Lily on Fashion Week
Monday, February 12, 2018
To try to weave them into something that means something in the language of art history.
— Kehinde Wiley, Obama Portrait Unveiling
Sunday, February 11, 2018
If you look at a circle at an angle is it a perfect ellipse?
— Dillon on lamp
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Based on irony-free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews.
— Opening title, I, Tonya
