Gallery 21 - The anti-war art of Jurate Macnoriute, an artist based in Lithuania. It is a classic example the tradition of political art which has thrived in Europe for centuries.
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Painting If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Painting
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Painting An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Painting
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Painting Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Painting
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Painting "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Painting
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Painting Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Painting
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Painting Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Painting
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Painting There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Painting
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Painting To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Painting
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based 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 Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Painting The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Painting
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Painting When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Painting
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Painting 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 Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Painting
