Dariusz Nowak-Nova - Net-art. Works from cycles: TwelveFruits (1996), Zeitgeist (1997-98), LiveTarot (1996-98), CorpusHermeticum (1998), Dante (1998-99)
National Museum in Warsaw - Greatest Polish collection of ancient and medieval art, Polish and foreign paintings.
Watercolor and oil painting of Blanka Lyszczarz - Abstract paintings of Blanka Lyszczarz depicting the landscapes of Tuscany, Jura or Provence. The series of watercolor and oil paintings have mythology's themes - Menhir, Temenos or Aletis. The
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Visual Arts We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Visual Arts
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Visual Arts "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Visual Arts
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Visual Arts Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Visual Arts
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Visual Arts A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Visual Arts
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Visual Arts You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Visual Arts
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Visual Arts I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Visual Arts
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Visual Arts When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous 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 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Visual Arts If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Visual Arts
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Visual Arts "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Visual Arts
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Visual Arts If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Visual Arts
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Visual Arts 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 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Visual Arts
