Thursday, May 17, 2012
Is it useful? I don’t know, but it’s interesting to have invented one.
— Eve Aschheim
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Making a thousand gestures and motions which I cannot describe.
— Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
What are you? And on what account did you go to sea?
— Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Monday, May 14, 2012
He showed me how to stay hungry.
— Mark Luce, "Robert Demeritt, Rest in Peace,“ My Kid Could Paint That
Sunday, May 13, 2012
He’s basically a special type of rain.
— Ian Trase
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Don’t point that gun at him, he’s un unpaid intern.
— Steve Zissou, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
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