Showing posts with label Arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arts. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Red eye aside


 All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.  

Richard Avedon

Friday, November 5, 2010

Enough is enough?

I hold that a little rebellion is a good thing.  

Thomas Jefferson

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Perspective required?

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Mark Twain

Friday, September 3, 2010

Discordant duty?

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. 

Edith Sitwell

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Captured for posterity?

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.  

Edward Gorey

Friday, July 2, 2010

Fan this

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Heavenly strains?

Harpists spend ninety percent of their lives tuning their harps and ten percent playing out of tune.


Igor Stravinsky

Friday, March 12, 2010

Binary School of Drama?

I only have two acting styles: with and without a horse.

Robert Mitcham 

Monday, February 15, 2010

Hindsight is 20/20?

I didn't know I was doing film noir.  I thought they were detective stories with low lighting.

Marie Windsor

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Where cult films go...


...academics will follow.


Dwight Garner

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Conceptual Art?


I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

Stephen Wright

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Thy will be done



I’m unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I’m going to sing.


Anon.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Strange Convergence: Superheros + Historical Photos

Superman assists as soldiers from the 7th US Army carry artworks down the steps of Meunschwanstein Castle where European art treasures, stolen by the Nazis, were hidden during World War II. More.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Cave Art?

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Shall we?

Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

George Bernard Shaw

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Monday, August 24, 2009

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of....

but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Art in motion?


Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

John Dryden

Saturday, August 8, 2009

New York Cultural Treasures, cont.


Enrico Caruso Museum of America, Brooklyn. Among its many artifacts is Caruso's death mask. [Only two others are known to exist.] The Museum is open every Sunday from 2:00 to 5:00 PM, by appointment only.
 
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