Hatton Gallery - Gallery background, site plan, and information about current and forthcoming exhibitions. Located in the city centre.
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Newcastle Artists - Online gallery of contemporary art, oil paintings, sculpture and mixed media by local artists.
Laing Art Gallery - Finest art collection in the region with works by Holman Hunt, Gauguin and John Martin. Information on the collections, current exhibitions, educational visits and contact details.
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Artists and Galleries Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Artists and Galleries
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Artists and Galleries "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Artists and Galleries
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Artists and Galleries All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Artists and Galleries
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Artists and Galleries "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Artists and Galleries
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Artists and Galleries A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Artists and Galleries
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Artists and Galleries A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Artists and Galleries
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Artists and Galleries Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Artists and Galleries
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "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) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Artists and Galleries There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Artists and Galleries
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Artists and Galleries "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Artists and Galleries
"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) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Artists and Galleries Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Artists and Galleries
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Artists and Galleries If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Artists and Galleries
