The purpose of this blog is to collect the wit and wisdom
of that prolific sculptor and sage raconteur, R.J. Miller.
Frequently used phrases of any vintage,
originality, length, or political correctness are acceptable.
For example:
of that prolific sculptor and sage raconteur, R.J. Miller.
Frequently used phrases of any vintage,
originality, length, or political correctness are acceptable.
For example:
*That's cooking with gasoline (Danny Leonard)
*It Don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing (Doug and Carol's favorite)
*Whatever helps you helps you (Doug and Carol's second favorite)
*Queer as a three dollar bill
*Cold as a witch's tit
*(that smell would) tear the hide off a dead pig.
*The dream of reason produces monsters (as quoted from Goya)
*It takes two to tango
... and come to think of it ... even frequency does not need to be a criterion ... so if some especially pithy remark clings to your memory ... this is the place to share it.
Readers of this post are invited to make their contributions
as comments to this post --
and as the list approaches the thousands --
I'll sort them into appropriate categories.
14 comments:
Art historians [and/or critics?] are a bunch of pansies.
He's a pitiful idiot child.
It's just off by one c.h.
I'm a born liar.
I lie all the time.
Thanks, Greg!
All of those phrases seem "straight from the horse's mouth" (which is yet another Dick-ism) -- but I don't recall the word "pansy" being in his lexicon.
In my recollection, he would more likely say "Art historians and critics are all queer as a three dollar bill"
Here's a few from Larry Elig (a student from the 70's)
Needless to say, they are all priceless - and indeed - "Ya can't make this stuff up" :
*SMELLS LIKE SOUR OWL SHIT
*IT WAS THERE I KNEW WHAT SHE LOVED TO DO
*CAN'T FIND A YOUNG GIRL-GET A YOUNG BOY
*THATS JUST A BUNCH OF MICKEY MOUSE SHIT
*DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS
*THATS WHAT THE OLD LADY SAID WHEN SHE KISSED THE COW ON THE ASS
*I JUST WANT A BARBIE DOLL THAT I CAN CALL MY OWN
*YA CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP
*IT'LL SCARE YOU OUT OF A YEARS GROWTH
*THEY HAVE REACHED THE HEIGHT OF THEIR OWN STUPIDITY
Just thought of a few that seem
especially timely:
*Veil of tears
*Not long for this world
a few aphorisms/phrases...
Whatever helps you helps you.
What's her name..."bingy-boo" over there...
(bingy-boo as an insert for an object/name/place you can't think of)
"bunnywork"
(my personal favorite--the term for the artwork people do when they don't have any ideas and just want to fiddle around)
Remember, people that take their clothes off for you are crazy.
(in reference to art models)
Women are always bigger perverts than men.
Self taught? You know what that means. You've had the worst teacher on earth!
Thanks, Maren -- and here's some more you gave to my Mom today:
*There is no composition without opposition.
*I love to go swimming with bowlegged women and dive between their legs.
*People need art in order to face the real world.
*My brain went south.
*(referring to some paintings) Tobacco spit brown.
*(in casting) You can always fix it in plaster.
*If you go into art, you got to be a whore.
Whoops -- I got confused -- the list I included in the last comment came from Carin Hebenstreit - a student from the 1970's (who remembered "Tobacco spit brown" since she's a painter)
Here's one from brother Eric:
"That's like pouring it into a quart bottle" (while pouring hot wax into a mold - moments before it all spilled onto the floor - c. 1967)
Here's some from Tom Tsuchiya, a student from the 90's.
Some of these have already been mentioned - but it's also interesting who remembers which ones:
"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"
"Lie with equanimity"
"Art is a lie- I lie a lot" (I combined two seperate RJ quotes)
"Artists are myth-makers"
"You can't have composition without opposition"
"We shouldn't memorialize wars, we should forget about them"
Good Morning Mr. ZipZipZip (with your hair contrictor shortage - hair constrictor shortage mind)
gratzi nazi
prego dego
how is a mouse when it spins on its tail (the higher the fewer)
Life is too short to keep making that horse shit.
Gimme a smoke.
Get up and let a old man show you how it's done.
Dig Huh?
Thats the ticket.
Gimme a smoke.
Get up and let an old man show you how its done.
Dig Huh?
Thats the ticket.
Wee Dicks.
Larry said:
Gimme a smoke.
Get up and let an old man show you how its done.
Dig Huh?
Thats the ticket.
Wee Dicks.
Smells like sour owl shit...
He's a pitiful idiot child.
Like those especially.
And "bunnywork." And "bingy-boo."
Some of these are quite useful!
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