Endnotes
Introduction
- “march backwards into the future”: McLuhan, Marshall, Quentin Fiore. The Medium Is the Massage. New York, London, Toronto: Random House, 1967.
Chapter One
- “…a more beautiful question”: Cummings, E.E. Collected Poems [of] E. E. Cummings. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928.
- Vermeer, Johannes. The Art of Painting. 1666. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
- Van Rijn, Rembrandt. The Artist in His Studio. 1626–28. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- “aired its final episode of Reading Rainbow”: Calhoun, Ben. “Reading Rainbow Reaches Its Final Chapter.” NPR. NPR, 28 Aug. 2009. Web. 02 Apr. 2012.
Chapter Two
- “A sunflower seed…”: Flanders, John. The Craftsman’s Way: Canadian Expressions. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1981.
- “pheromones of the master’s own breath.”: Watson, Lyall. The Nature of Things: The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.
Chapter Three
- “I’ll play first…”: Miles Davis Honda Scooter Ad. Perf. Miles Davis. Commercial. YouTube. 1 Feb. 2008. Web. 8 Apr. 2012.
- “Lighting one candle…”: Hass, Robert, Basho Matsuo, Buson Yosa, and Issa Kobayashi. The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1994.
Chapter Four
- “…putting form and content together.”: Blumenthal, Saul. “Designer Paul Rand Speaks at Media Lab.” The Tech. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15 Nov. 1996. Web. 02 Apr. 2012.
- “A small bowl arrived…”: Achatz, Grant. “What Grant Achatz Saw at El Bulli.” Diner’s Journal Blog. The New York Times, 16 Feb. 2010. Web. 02 Apr. 2012.
- Johnson, Steven. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. New York: Riverhead, 2010.
Chapter Five
- “the world as it will be…”: Asimov, Isaac. Asimov on Science Fiction. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981.
Chapter Six
- “We sail within a vast sphere”: Pascal, Blaise. Pascal’s Pensées. Project Gutenberg. 27 Apr. 2006. Web. 8 Apr. 2012.
- “…the right solution would presently announce itself.”: Weschler, Lawrence, and Robert Irwin. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin. Berkeley: University of California, 1982.
Chapter Seven
- “Draw your chair up close…”: Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and Edmund Wilson. The Crack-Up. New York: J. Laughlin, 1945.
Chapter Eight
- “…you will contribute a verse.”: From the poem O Me! O Life! Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2000.
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
- “Not I, not I…”: From the poem Song of a Man Who Has Come Through. Lawrence, D. H. The Complete Poems. New York: Penguin, 1971.
- Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. New York: Vintage, 2007.
- “Elizabeth Gilbert, in a lecture…”: A New Way to Think About Creativity. Perf. Elizabeth Gilbert. YouTube. TED Talks. Web.
- “the long, hard, stupid way…”: Brion, Raphael. “Treme Watch: David Chang Gets a Cameo.” Eater. Eater National, 13 June 2011. Web. 02 Apr. 2012.
- “In an episode of…”: Sorkin, Aaron, and Patrick H. Caddell. “Shibboleth.” The West Wing. NBC. 22 Nov. 2000. Television.
- Calvino, Italo, and William Weaver. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller. London: Vintage, 1998.
- “the design of the business card wouldn’t be finished until…”: Giampietro, Rob. “Reflections on Recent Work.” Lined and Unlined. 5 Jan. 2009. Web. 2 Apr. 2012.
- “I just sort of let it be known that I was available…”: Weschler, Lawrence, and Robert Irwin. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin. Berkeley: University of California, 1982.
- “We systematically…”: Hochman, David. “Office Party? Let’s Tweet It.” Nytimes.com. The New York Times, 4 May 2011. Web. 2 Apr. 2012.
- “A culture is no better than its woods.”: Auden, W. H. The Shield of Achilles. New York: Random House, 1955.
- “The moment just past is extinguished forever…”: Kubler, George. The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.