That you are willing to use logic and fact on certain issues means that you are awful.
Rollo Marquardt, Dwelling in the Cupcake World.
It’s not that we hugely exaggerate the significance of modernist art. It’s as if we cannot risk not doing so.
Hamilton Howlisch, A New Coat of Paint.
The problem with the work of art as heroic act is that it cannot remain that. Listen to a Mile Davis recording from the late 1950s, and listen again. Before long you will be humming it like a tune.
Maynard Bittle, Order in Magnitude.
He thinks that life is a series of decisions. That the world holds together because of the totality of human decisions.
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Philosophical and Literary Fragments of Gregory Sallust.
Seek out the rebel. And look closely. There you will find a conformity that is almost mechanical.
Gaddis Gann, Essays on the Pre-Socratics.
My advice to you is this: Don’t be “sorry.” But if you must be sorry, then be sorry about the craters on the moon.
Sondra Wattle, The Long Lonely Winter Evenings.
How dare my ancestors fail to provide me with the aptitudes that I would prefer to have!
Hecuba Gathers, A Purely Physical World.
Choose some things to dislike, and cling to them.
Cooper W. Barthelme, A Systems Approach to Advice.
Where there is a wool there is a weigh.
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Philosophical and Literary Fragments of Gregory Sallust.
Trite: A word that contemporary artists pretend not to fear.
Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.
