Thursday, September 26, 2013
Through the shells of empty buildings and great columns of glass.
They say you don’t look.
They say you don’t look.
— Andrew Bird, “Orpheo Looks Back”
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
The danger would be to be too reductive that it would become a concept.
— Jesse Reiser
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Art is something that’s wrapped around it maybe.
— Kai
Monday, September 23, 2013
Run.
— Ratatat, “Ghostface Killah & Jadakiss - Run”
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Like hammocks of skin.
— Paul Muldoon, “Dancers At The Moy”
Saturday, September 21, 2013
OK.
— David, C.O.G.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Friction is good, it keeps things together.
— John Hunter
Thursday, September 19, 2013
No, in an age of avant-gardism the only possible strategy to counter a new style which you detest is to leapfrog it.
— Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
With a sigh Braque waited for his old comrade Pablo’s imminent collapse as a painter and a human being… But the damnedest thing happened instead! Picasso just kept ascending.
— Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Only when he gave himself up to the idea that the arrow made its own way.
— Paul Muldoon
Monday, September 16, 2013
We are already picking and choosing.
— Peter Singer
Sunday, September 15, 2013
But when I do I wonder why.
— Asaf Avidan, “One Day / Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Remix)”
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Socrates is skeptical and asks, Is conduct right because the gods command it, or do the gods command it because it is right?
— James Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosophy
Friday, September 13, 2013
It’s also just truth seeking and everything else.
— Nat Oppenheimer
Thursday, September 12, 2013
When do you think there will be universal emancipation?
— Teddy
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.
— Vladimir V. Putin, “A Plea for Caution From Russia,” The New York Times
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
To take it away from its self indulgence, its futility.
— Liz Diller
Monday, September 9, 2013
Searching hard.
— The Last Bison, “Quill”
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Takes two to tango.
— Kristin
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Went out one night for to make a little round
— Doc Watson, “Little Sadie”
