noteworthy quotations

[surfer]

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

- Barry Lopez

[Jesse]

Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.
-Wu Wei

The map is not the territory.
-Korzybski

EAI is not EAI, nor is it otherwise.
-Jesse Goin

[faster]

When I first met Don Brown, in 1963, he remarked that he wanted to not express a work of art in order to reveal the inner workings of the art process. I think we cannot not do that anymore, nor should we.

-- Dan Reynolds, 2001

[surfer]

"The buns were slow today."

- Joey Chestnut, after eating 68 hotdogs in 10 minutes.

[Lao Tsu Ben]

"There is no sexuality in Raymond Carver's stories - or, I should say, his story."

Gilbert Sorrentino

[jon abbey]

forgot about this thread, I had one on FB last night:

“It had all the qualities that interest me—literalness, repetitiveness, an obsessive quality, order with dumbness, and the possibility of a complete lack of meaning.”-Jasper Johns

[Lao Tsu Ben]

forgot about this thread, I had one on FB last night:

“It had all the qualities that interest me—literalness, repetitiveness, an obsessive quality, order with dumbness, and the possibility of a complete lack of meaning.”-Jasper Johns

Does he speak about his own paintings?!

[jon abbey]

forgot about this thread, I had one on FB last night:

“It had all the qualities that interest me—literalness, repetitiveness, an obsessive quality, order with dumbness, and the possibility of a complete lack of meaning.”-Jasper Johns

Does he speak about his own paintings?!

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/118981

[MRS]

"This is not a celebration" I'm thinking Morgan Freeman in Bonfire of the Vanities

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crim ... f6878.html

[howsthatsound]

Personality is a flimsy thing on which to build an art. - John Cage

I hate music, especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

[Dan Warburton]

forgot about this thread, I had one on FB last night:

“It had all the qualities that interest me—literalness, repetitiveness, an obsessive quality, order with dumbness, and the possibility of a complete lack of meaning.”-Jasper Johns

That was the one I used for the PT review of the Pisaro / Tsunoda, too.

[surfer]

"No man ever rose to any degree of perfection but through obstinacy and an inveterate resolution against the stream of mankind."

- Alexander Theroux

[042]

Taken straight out of context from here

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