Friday, May 11, 2012
We are asking these questions because we are here to question and not at all because we have felt incongruities in what we have seen.
— Eleanor Rowland, The Significance of Art
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Like a fox.
— Keith Frazier, Inside Man
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Now I want you to notice what appears to be to you just a flat surface, right, but this is not a flat surface to most of life on earth, this is three dimensional.
— E.O. Wilson, Lord of the Ants
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
This is for drunk penguins.
— Paul Lewis
Monday, May 7, 2012
Good morning.
— Guy outside of Wu
Sunday, May 6, 2012
They can’t block out the light in here.
— Giuseppe Conlon, In the Name of the Father
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Supposed to be.
— Kristin Cotter
Friday, May 4, 2012
Just because I appreciate documentation.
— David White
Thursday, May 3, 2012
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground.
— Pixies, “Where Is My Mind?”
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The strong poet peers into the mirror of his fallen precursor and beholds neither the precursor nor himself but a Gnostic double, the dark otherness or antithesis that both he and the precursor longed to be, yet feared to become.
— Harold Bloom, The Anxiety Of Influence
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
In some measure, we have attributed to the art or artifacts of all time the qualities of our own: that its purpose is to be contemplated, and its main qualities can be apprehended visually.
— Susan Vogel, “Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion”
Monday, April 30, 2012
The illustration is a constructed thing.
— Nicole Elder
Sunday, April 29, 2012
You are more likely to address a problem that you have found or even invented.
— Wayne C. Booth, The Craft of Research
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Did I tell you a story about the parking lot?
— Woman on NJ Transit train
Friday, April 27, 2012
And you sleep out every night.
— Harry McClintock, "Big Rock Candy Mountain"
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity.
— Ulysses Everett McGill, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Inherently interpretive endeavor.
— Nicole Elder
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
We don’t know why this genealogy stays.
— M.Arch. Student Juror
Monday, April 23, 2012
Desire precedes everything we do, right?
— Thom Mayne in conversation with Leebeus Woods, “Talking with Thom Mayne”
Sunday, April 22, 2012
There are certain stories that begin in earnest only when they seem to reach an end.
— Alan Feuer, "The Secret Life of a Society Maven,“ The New York Times
