Le Théâtre du Chapeau - A clowns and street performing company. Includes performance information, calendar of events, courses, press releases, and photographs.
Hassan Massoudy - Arabic calligrapher provides gallery of work.
French Union of Sculptors and Plastic Artists - Represents the profession to public authorities, and defends the collective and individual interest of its members with the legislator, the government, and the marketplace.
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Visual Arts "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Visual Arts
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Visual Arts "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Visual Arts
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Visual Arts The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Visual Arts
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Visual Arts Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Visual Arts
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Visual Arts Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Visual Arts
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Visual Arts "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Visual Arts
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Visual Arts "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Visual Arts
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Visual Arts Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Visual Arts
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Visual Arts It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Visual Arts
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Visual Arts "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Visual Arts
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Visual Arts Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Visual Arts
