What Is Form?

2011-12-17T20:43:00.000-08:00

"Crude?! I'm simply a connoisseur of the single entendre."

conversation fragment, 2011

2011-06-05T21:38:00.000-07:00

"Watcha doin?"
"Uh ... taking a loan for a walk."
"You mean nickin somethin?"
"Uh ... no, but yes, but no ..."

monkey 1 and monkey 2

2011-03-09T15:28:00.000-08:00

"Let the spirit of the vertical stripe remain with you always."

Nick Saloman, circ. 1987

2011-01-28T17:40:00.000-08:00

"The higher the monkey climbs, the more you can see of its arse."

Dr. Sir L.C. Patterson, 2011

2010-12-18T19:19:00.000-08:00

"Show me a bridge and I'll show you a nice lot of firewood."

Colonel R. Bellend, 1864

2010-11-13T15:18:00.000-08:00

"Sobriety is the best friend of diplomacy.
Diplomacy is a good friend of compromise.
Compromise is no friend of Art.
Art is the enemy of sobriety."

Bruno Boyardee, 1964

2010-10-06T15:49:00.000-07:00

"I walked back to the car, all ready to fix it and split, only to find out that I didn't have any duct tape. I remembered that Ron used it all back in December 'cause he was going to show me how he could make a wallet out of it, only he totally messed it up and used my whole roll. He promised to get me a new one, but he never did."

Jim Anchower, 2006

"Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to ... I can't remember what it was ..."

George W. Bush, 2001

2010-09-18T16:54:00.000-07:00

Inquisitor 1: "I asked you a question and you answered me with a question. That's bad form."

Inquisitor 2: "But what is form?"

2010-08-18T14:54:00.000-07:00

"And I thought my heart would break
When you doubled up the stake
With your fingers all a-shake
You could never tell a winner from a snake
but you always make money
Easy money"

Richard Palmer-James, circ. 1973

2010-06-23T17:48:00.000-07:00

"Insidious is the ass-monkey."

Ancient Chinese proverb

2010-04-07T17:50:00.000-07:00

"But what about ass-monkeys Charles? Does 'Natural Selection' explain them as well?"

Leonard Hinchcliff, 1839

2010-03-16T23:38:00.000-07:00

"Ma muse éternelle, le fromage du papillon!"

Yamakuri Mamajamma, 1923 (trans. Gérard Q. Fontaine)

2010-02-06T22:31:00.000-08:00

"When people ask if I'm taking the piss, I ask them whether the bladder is half-full or half-empty."

Gavin Schon, 1982

2009-12-15T15:06:00.000-08:00

"'No method at all,' I murmured after a while."

Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, circ. 1895

2009-09-10T19:05:00.000-07:00

"There is always someone around who thinks the latest innovations are a vocabulary for his use. He uses them amply, mixes them up and ignores the actual meanings. Since he generally does not understand the devices, they are retrograded and relaxed."

Donald Judd, 1962

2009-08-07T18:15:00.000-07:00

"The only ugly thing in nature is humanity."

Edmund Frittlepea, 1917

2009-07-02T04:33:00.000-07:00

"Sentons-nous des Français?"

Unknown, 1982

2009-05-03T01:29:00.000-07:00

"I'd rather eat vulture and have no choice, than the vulture eat me and eternally rejoice."

Charles Gocher, circ. 1990

2009-04-03T16:20:00.000-07:00

"The President, having promised certain things to the people, obediently presents them to Congress and obediently carries out the dictates of Congress. He is the top authority because of his talent in obedience."

Agnes Martin, 1976

2009-03-04T12:04:00.000-08:00

"Eat a slice of cake with narrativity (clustering the hole of accessibility). Cut it with the fork of momentarily."

Bertolini Egocenti, 1957

2009-02-14T17:03:00.000-08:00

"Art's twilight is upon us, yet again. I refer to this particular phase as belational callisthenics."

Knackerless Bollard, 2006

2008-11-30T00:15:00.000-08:00

"Which would win in a race between stink and a cut snake? It'd be very close, though no possibility of a photo finish!"

Heinrich P. Gubler, 1992 (trans. L. Pentridge)

2008-10-03T03:51:00.000-07:00

"I do not shake your hand, Monsieur Manet, I have not washed for a week."

Paul Cézanne, circ. 1863

2008-07-19T02:47:00.000-07:00

"Diplomacy is the size 9 of the intellect."

Ken Weston, 1973

2008-05-10T19:21:00.000-07:00

"The first word of an artist is against artists."

Ad Reinhardt, 1966