Leeds City Art Gallery - The 20th century British collection one of the best outside London; also Victorian and French Post-Impressionist paintings. Details of permanent collections, exhibitions, events. Information on access, and for artists.
Mario Vallejo - Leeds-based artist and entrepreneur offers a gallery of his works, and details of services offered.
"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) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Here's to you and here's to me,
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But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
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-- Groucho Marx Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson History is more or less bunk.
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-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "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) Galleries
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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-- Harriet Beecher Stowe That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
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-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Galleries "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
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-- Cesare Pavese Galleries A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Galleries
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Galleries The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Galleries Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Galleries The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Galleries
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Galleries Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Galleries
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Galleries The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Galleries Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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