What do I fear? Being the fool who sees himself as a sophisticate. Is anyone else—anyone at all—afflicted with this fear?
Aleister Wainwright, Odd Droppings.
There is no such thing as almost believing. Belief cannot be an asymptote.
Jason K. Broadus, The Ice of My Dreams.
I cannot avoid my ideas, so of course it appears as though I am devoted to them.
Baldwin Tavinger, Toward a Rhetoric of Number.
Our understanding of mathematics resides [only] at the operational level: We know some ways to apply mathematics to the physical world, and we know some ways to generate further mathematics.
Piet Goovaerts, Introduction to the Mathematics of Elasticity.
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.
