subway art

"... it made something make sense. [The art] filled the gap waiting to be filled ... it made a moment which would stay forever in their memories, which is what all artists are suppose to do."
- Keith Haring

first boutique hotel

http://www.blakeshotels.com

"...I shall drown my sorrow in work. Work is a great comforter, and my life work is one that contributes to the welfare of others, as well as myself, and this thought helps to brighten one's life."

- Sir Henry Wellcome

"Great art doesn't let your mind wander - it makes you concentrate."

"the best painting in the world"

Rogier van der Weyden, Descent from the Cross, 15th Century

"The most compassionate painting of suffering."

- Jonathan Jones

business 101

"Retail is detail."
- Harlan Kent, Yankee Candle CEO

terribilita

"He doesn't say, 'I want you to recognize this man.' Instead he says, 'I want you to recognize yourself - through yourself all mankind.'"

- Michelangelo's Apollo and Pathos: The Human Form 

5

"I'd give a lot to have Steve's taste."
- Bill Gates

"Tell me who you hang out with, and I'll tell you who you are." No. It's, "Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you who you are."  

prophecy

"Don't tell me what a man says, don't tell me what a man knows. Tell me where he has travelled."

Peter Beard writing in his diary at Lake Rudolf in 1965.

Portrait of Peter Beard

"Painting is a game for man to distract himself ... Beauty moves me. Nothing else."
- Francis Bacon

aphorism

"If you keep going in the direction that you're going, you're going to wind up where you're headed."
- Lance Reddick

google glasses

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer."
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos, p. 29

Christo Valley, 1970-72

"Whatever I did, I did without rules of other people, because it's what I wanted to do."
- Herbert Vogel, Art Benefactor/Collector

Coming to Toronto: http://www.momofuku.com

Lullaby, the Seasons, 2002 (detail)
Damien Hirst began making medicine cabinets while still an art student.

youth

"That which we learn with delight we will never forget."
- Aristotle interpreted by Bill Moyers

La Mondaine

"Tissot was the master of a small subject - the rich - and he swathed the women in yards of fabric and painted them midflounce as they disembarked from boats, lounged in parks, or sat on window seats overlooking the sea."
- Steve Martin in An Object of Beauty, pp.14-15

50-50

"I'm about fifty-fifty on believing in God," he said. "For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye."
     He admitted that, as he faced death, he might be overestimating the odds out of a desire to believe in the afterlife. "I like to think that something survives after you die," he said. "It's strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want to believe that something survives, that maybe your consciousness endures."
     He fell silent for a very long time. "But on the other hand, perhaps it's like an on-off switch," he said. "Click! And you're gone."
     Then he paused again and smiled slightly. "Maybe that's why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices."
- Steve Jobs quoted by Walter Isaacson in Steve Jobs, p.571

"I'm either going to be one of the first to be able to outrun a cancer like this, or I'm going to be one of the last to die from it ... Either among the first to make it to shore, or the last to get dumped."
- Steve Jobs quoted by Walter Isaacson in Steve Jobs, p.551

A place to eat in Vancouver

http://www.vijs.ca

Start your own online petition

www.change.org

A place to stay in London

http://www.the-hempel.co.uk

"There has to be a prize for being successful and maybe Monaco is the prize."
- James Caan