January 2012
2 posts
4 tags
The line has in itself neither matter nor...
Title: Leonardo Da Vinci
Paintings: Bernard Frize (via Galerie Perrotin)
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And the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while,...
Title: Mary Shelley (‘Frankenstein’)
Paintings: Dan McCarthy
December 2011
1 post
3 tags
To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing...
Title: Ai Weiwei (Time)
Photography: Barry Feinstein (Morrison Hotel Gallery)
November 2011
2 posts
4 tags
I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of...
Title: Joe Dunthorne (Submarine)
Miniature Sculptures: Dalton M. Ghetti
5 tags
Memory is dynamic. It's alive. If some details are...
Title: Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir)
Paintings: Otto Dix
July 2011
3 posts
3 tags
If we are bruised at all, it is by the images we...
Title: Geraldine Brooks (Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal’s Journey from Down Under to All Over)
Illustrations: Mimi Leung
4 tags
The Laughing Heart
You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. know it while you have it.
Title: Charles Bukowski (‘The Laughing Heart’)
Conceptual Art: Farhad Moshiri (via Gallerie Perrotin)
4 tags
Action is character.
Title: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Photography: Jacques Henri Lartigue (via Art Pages)
June 2011
6 posts
7 tags
Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn...
Title: Steven Pinker
Graphic Design: Ki-chul Song (Hangeul Poster Series)
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To look at this country is grand; to travel in it,...
Title: Captain John Bourke (From ‘Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen’ by Christopher McDougall)
Photography: Sebastiao Selgado (From The New York Times Magazine)
5 tags
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to...
Title: Okakura Kakuzo
Conceptual Art: Michelle Inciarrano & Katy Maslow (Twig Terrariums)
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is...
Title: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Photography: Lorenzo Linthout
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When I need a drug in me, it brings out the thug...
Title: Depeche Mode (‘Sweet Perfection’ from Violator)
Paintings: George Condo
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Your present (time) is the true illusion.
Title: David Mitchell (An Orison of Sonmi~451 from ‘Cloud Atlas’)
Paintings: Ellsworth Kelly
May 2011
3 posts
6 tags
I am afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll...
Title: Linda Woolverton (Lines of the Madhatter in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland)
Sketches: Tim Burton (via The Fox Is Black)
4 tags
The French word gets it nicely - 're-garder':...
Text: Wim Wenders
Paintings: Ray Morimura
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Let my mind do the walking, and let my body do the...
Text: Depeche Mode (World in My Eyes)
Illustrations: Santtu Mustonen
April 2011
4 posts
4 tags
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and...
Text: Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
Paintings: Daehyun Kim (Moonassi Drawings)
4 tags
I shop therefore I am.
Text: Barbara Kruger
Book Cover Design: Studio8 Design
5 tags
The world, she do spin mad. These are wild times.
Text: Frank Miller
Paintings: Kenny Scharf
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Knowing what thou knowest not is in a sense...
Text: Piet Hein
Paintings & Plotter Drawings: Mark Wilson
March 2011
8 posts
6 tags
Follow. But, follow only if ye be men of valour,...
Text: Monty Python (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Book Cover Designs: Daniel Mroz (via 50 Watts)
5 tags
Disorder is only an order that we cannot see.
Text: Henri-Louis Bergson
Paintings: Kaws (@ Galerie Perrotin)
4 tags
The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us,...
Text: Ella Mailart
Photography: Sze Tsung Leong (Horizons)
6 tags
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some...
Text: Hunter S. Thompson
Conceptual Car Illustrations: Fred Lammers
4 tags
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold...
Text: Maya Angelou
Sculptures: Xavier Veilhan (Installations at the Chateau de Versailles)
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As order exponentially increases, time...
Text: Ray Kurzweil
Digital Art: Jia Zheng Yang
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his...
Text: Mark Twain (Letter to W. D. Howells, 2 April 1899)
Photography: Fred R. Conrad (Westminster Dog Show ‘Best of Breed’, New York Times)
4 tags
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing...
Text: Georges Braque
Paintings: Christopher Gray
February 2011
1 post
5 tags
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of...
Text: Bill Bryson
Graphic Design: Alexander Girard (Braniff Airlines Playing Cards 1968)
January 2011
2 posts
4 tags
It was the last that remained of a past whose...
Text: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
Photography: Sebastiao Salgado
4 tags
No language, just sound, that's all we need know,...
Text: Joy Division (Transmission)
Photography: Dan Holdsworth
November 2010
1 post
5 tags
The commonality between science and art is in...
Text: Edward Tufte
Photography: Alex S. MacLean
October 2010
6 posts
6 tags
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women...
Text: William Shakespeare
Posters: Leeds Theatre Poster Archives
4 tags
Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art… Without...
Text: Michael Roller (via The Knot Collective)
Magazine Cover Art: Bomb Magazine
3 tags
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Text: Milan Kundera
Photography: Branislav Kropilak
6 tags
The need for mystery is greater than the need for...
Text: Ken Kesey
Book Covers: J. P. Kruseman
5 tags
Trickster goes where the action is, and the action...
Text: Michael Chabon (Maps and Legends)
Photography: Google Maps (via Boston.com)
September 2010
9 posts
4 tags
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a...
Text: Charles Eames
Graphic Design: Emil Ruder
4 tags
Our vocabularies and manners of expression are...
Text: Dennis Dutton (The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution)
Poster Design: Mike Lemanski
5 tags
I am the Cheshire Cat that welcomes Alice in...
Text: Takashi Murakami
Art Installations: Takashi Murakami
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The more I let go of my analytical process, the...
Text: Sarjano (Motherland Magazine)
Outdoor Sculptures: Dennis Oppenheimer
6 tags
I think the key image of the 20th century is the...
Text: J. G. Ballard
Collectible Model Cars: Tintin Boutique
3 tags
There are no innocents. There are, however,...
Text: Stieg Larsson (The Girl Who Played With Fire)
Performance Art: Riitta Ikonen
5 tags
A graphic representation of data abstracted from...
Text: William Gibson
Generative Art: Torben Giehler
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Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving...
Text: Paul Saffo
Posters: Milton Glaser
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...when a person is lucky enough to live inside a...
Text: Paul Auster (The Brooklyn Follies)
Public Art: Tom Otterness
August 2010
7 posts
6 tags
There's a point when you're done simplifying....
Text: Frank Chimero
Poster Design: Hexagonall
6 tags
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more...
Text: Salman Rushdie
Paintings: Kailash Raj
4 tags
The painter constructs. The photographer...
Text: Susan Sontag
Tridimensional Paintings: Henrique Oliveira