Csaba Szegedi - Artist's biography, current work, and professional achievements. Includes paintings, drawings, and photographs.
Leopold Bloom Assembling - A periodical named after the hero of Ulysses, a James Joyce novel. Features back issues with annotated links to paintings and drawings.
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Visual Arts Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Visual Arts
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Visual Arts Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Visual Arts
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Visual Arts An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Visual Arts
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Visual Arts What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Visual Arts
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Visual Arts I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Visual Arts
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Visual Arts There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Visual Arts
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Visual Arts Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Visual Arts
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Visual Arts When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Visual Arts
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Visual Arts There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Visual Arts
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Visual Arts Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Visual Arts
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Visual Arts I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Visual Arts
