715. I sometimes feel a bit guilty for bashing rock music—because it is such an easy target. But then I come to recognize that the easy target is the only kind that is available today.
Trevor Martens, A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.
129. When you sit down to take your tea, do so without a strategem.
Nicholas James Barnarby, ed., Dr. Sonderborg’s Book of DOs and DON’Ts.
When there is no “up” or “down,” then it is inevitably down that we go.
Davis Hampton, Designing the Culture.
The products of modernism actually have a brief life. Like the caption of a one-frame cartoon. Who wants to look at a Mondrian, and then look and look and look? For the nine-hundredth time, modernism is anemia. A contagious anemia.
Hunter Hogarth, Raised By Wolves.
The internet is all we have. So, does this mean that we had nothing before the internet? Well, no. It means that, before the internet, we had everything.
Jackson Currothers III, The View From the Cauldron.
Overheard at Gallery:
—Your work is really strong, Daniel. But you seem almost indifferent to it.
—No, not indifferent. Not exactly. Look, I have to live with this stuff. So, I find it to be acceptable. Just decent. Bearable maybe.
Jackson Currothers III, The View From the Cauldron.
“Shooting Reginald—shooting him three times in the torso—was the least I could do,” Patricia admitted.
Abigail Givens, The Mystery of the Apricot Preserves.
171. The easiest thing to do is to legitimize yourself. The hardest is to acknowledge that you are in no position to legitimize anything—that there is no floor.
Trevor Martens, A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.
There is nothing left of modernism. Artists have been merely quoting each other since the Twenties. AE was just a grandiose conflation (and it was born tired). And “postmodernism”? A series of one-frame cartoons. They all know—and know all too well—what an artist should be like. That’s the thing today.
Ted Elsinore, Visual Art and Duration.
Testimonial: “I am so proud of who I am. And proud of what I stand for. But I am a nihilist, so I don’t stand for anything. Except for nihilism, of course. Nihilism.”
Jackson Currothers III, The View From the Cauldron.
