I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world
– The late poet Stanley Kunitz, quoted on a wall in the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.
Category Archives: Quotes
Art, Clearly
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Outsider Art
Friday, June 20, 2008
The term “outsider art” is class warfare all wrapped in a neat little snarky bow.
– Phil Barbato, via Twitter
Hypocrilicious
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Regardless of my lack of support for the major parties, Slate’s John Dickerson nailed it when he said:
We can disdain moderators who ask questions designed to trap candidates, but we’re no different if we screech every time they put a foot wrong.
Caveat Emptor
Thursday, May 1, 2008
…the distinction between “great marketing accomplishment” and “consumer fraud” can be quite thin…
from Going Private: The Five Circles of Hell
Of potties and poetry…
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.
—Geoffrey Hill
Mind your…um…mind.
Friday, September 7, 2007
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- AA Milne
