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	ArtiZIN - Contemporary fine art gallery. Run with a Hollywood flair and described as 'provocative and political, glamorous and alluring, seductive and controversial' Promoting art as a more tangible commodity to a wider market.
	The Bellevue Gallery - Specialises in new art of unusual character, not normally handled by commercial galleries.
	Edinburgh Galleries Association - Information about galleries and exhibitions in Edinburgh.
	Edinburgh Printmakers Studio Gallery - An artists' studio and gallery dedicated to contemporary fine-art printmaking. Established in 1967 and the first open access studio in Britain. Offers courses and events.
	Gill Foster Shades of Folk Arts - A One Stroke certified instructor teaching art classes and accepting commissions for hand painted furniture.
	National Galleries of Scotland - Includes the official sites for the National Gallery of Scotland, the Royal Scottish Academy Building, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Scottish National Museum of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery.
	The Leith Gallery - Exhibition listings and general information for this gallery of Scottish contemporary art, set on the shore.
	The Fruitmarket Gallery - An art space close to Waverley station, showing a programme of exhibitions of Scottish, British and international contemporary art.
	The Forest Café - A self-funding, not-for-profit arts café with space for exhibitions and events.
	Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop - Provides resources and support for working sculptors in Edinburgh, and sometimes shows exhibitions.
	City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries - A guide to the galleries, museums and monuments managed and owned by the City of Edinburgh Council.

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time Artists and Galleries I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Artists and Galleries There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. 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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen Artists and Galleries A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard Artists and Galleries Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Artists and Galleries "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Artists and Galleries As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Artists and Galleries "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Artists and Galleries Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd 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 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Artists and Galleries These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Artists and Galleries "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.) Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Artists and Galleries The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Artists and Galleries Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." 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