“I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments.” WantTryingBelieveBeautifulFormUsedClearModernTvsShapesArchitecturePracticalsBeautiful ThingsWant UOrnamentsThings I LoveModern ArchitectureRectanglesPractical Things Author:Pipilotti Rist
“John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.” MenBeautifulSportsPlayerColorTvsGeniusBlueAll TimeTennisExceptionGapsAdsNormCommentaryLameTennis PlayerBlazersVolley Author:David Foster Wallace
“I guess for me - in the TV commercial world I was known for shooting locations, beautiful landscapes and things like that - so, it's interesting.” WorldBeautifulInterestingKnownTvsLandscapeShootingLocationTv CommercialBeautiful Landscapes Author:Zack Snyder
“I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.” ThinkingLittlesBeautifulFormTvsTheaterIntense Author:Mickey Sumner