Rebecca Kitchin - Portfolio of work including fashion, equine, graphic novels, childrens' books and paintings from an award-winning illustrator based in Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Oriel Cymru Gallery - Showcases the work of artists living in the area. Includes information on the artists, examples of their work, and allows on-line purchasing of the works on show.
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Arts and Entertainment "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Arts and Entertainment
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Arts and Entertainment It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Arts and Entertainment
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Arts and Entertainment "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Arts and Entertainment
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Arts and Entertainment Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Arts and Entertainment
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Arts and Entertainment
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Arts and Entertainment Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Arts and Entertainment
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Arts and Entertainment
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Arts and Entertainment A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Arts and Entertainment
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Arts and Entertainment
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Arts and Entertainment The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Arts and Entertainment
