dennis scharnberg

Contemporary Art:  a lofty form of banality.

Carter Winthrope,  A Treatise on Naturally Occurring Questions.

Contemporary art depends radically on conventional punctuation:  excessive use of quotation marks around the nonverbal.

Jefferson Baldung,  Forms of Evidence.

The contemporary artist operates under two axioms:  (1) anything is/can be art;  (2) nothing is/can be art.

Connor Eastwicke,  Fear of the Orthogonal.

Knowledge is scant.  Pretense to knowledge is vast.  Even superficial knowledge of “society” must begin with recognition of this.  Must, and doesn’t.

Gaylord Perry III,  The Walls of Magnus Martyr.

A social law:  as the Rubbish Heap gets worse and worse and worse, it seems to its denizens to be just better and better and better.

Stefan Muntz,  Entropic Processes in Architecture.

Nothing lies beyond the statement “I like it.”  Any further inquiry gets you nowhere.

Dieter Borst,  Single Points of Failure.

We must listen to our music indirectly.

Amanda Willcoxen, ed.,  The Philosophical and Literary Fragments of Gregory Sallust.

—That is wrong!  Terribly wrong!  And on so many levels.

—Levels?  What the hell is a “level”?

Philip Cavendish,  Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.

God does not exist.  Existence is God.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

Wherever I am, I am always not quite there.

Chalmers van Nest,  The Trivial Quadrivium.