“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”
- W.H. Auden”
“There is something right about cliches.”
- David Weiss, of Fischli & Weiss”
“Simplicity is both beautiful and hard. E=MC2 may be one of the most beautiful things known to man.”
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Frank Bruni, writing about Craig Clairborne:
His formula for success? He spotted an uninhabited niche, positioned himself to fill it and, when he got that break, rode it for all it was worth. A highly effective person doesn’t need seven habits if he has those three.
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“The trend of polarisation in the art market will continue, and even accelerate. The gallery sector is already marked by a split between a handful of major “branded” galleries and the rest. The first can hire the most bankable artists and access the deepest-pocketed buyers, the 1% of the 1% whose fortunes seem unaffected by the current economic slowdown. These galleries have international reach, meaning they can also plug into areas less affected by the economic slowdown. For the mid-sized galleries, however, the year ahead looks tough. Their buyers are the squeezed middle whose spending power will be affected in the coming months. Sadly, I expect to see more galleries closing.”
— Georgina Adam
Art Market Analysis
The Art Newspaper No. 231 January 2012
“I feel really lucky, although I hate that word -‘lucky.’ It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes - I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky. I’m fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.” —
Peter Dinklage
“The Payoff”
Profile by Dan Kois in THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, April 1, 2012
LINDA MCCARTNEY - Paul, Stella & James, Scotland, 1982
My favourite Linda McCartney photo, included in a new book of her photographs, LINDA MCCARTNEY: LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHS, published by Taschen.
HORACE BRISTOL - PBY Blister Gunner, 1944
“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”
“Critics are owls, bats and fleas.They are owls because they hoot, bats because they see things upside down, and fleas because they nip.”
- Albert Richardson, architect & former President of the Royal Academy.”
— The Art Newspaper - No. 232 February 2012. A True Icon, by Anna Somers Cocks
Richard Avedon - Elizabeth Taylor 1964