Posts tagged ‘Art’
Jul 12
“When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.”
―Walt Disney
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” ―Robert A. Heinlein
If we were only as smart as our phone, we’d be slim as a supermodel’s thesis.
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.“
―Thomas Mann
Science Detectives Find Eden Where Adam and Eve Left It
Ages before scientists traced the biblical Garden to the dark continent, Michelangelo painted “The Creation of Adam,” as if the first anatomically modern person were as pale as Pope Julius II, who paid for the job.
“The old master painter from the faraway hills
Painted the violets and the daffodills”
―Haven Gillespie
A poem with puns in praise of a lucky lamb in a pastoral picture, and words a good shepherd lives by
A Lamb in Chic Clothing
Branded on a range not on a grill / Cooler in a pen than a pan
“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.” ―Tiberius
“The only thing they can’t teach you at art school is art.” ―David Bailey
At the arts gymnasium of the Classical World, an Aristophanes ushers you up the steps to the highest stage, where some Ovid shoves you off.
“If you ever have a kid who doesn’t know what to do, stick him in art school. It’s amazing what evolves.”
―Ridley Scott
May 31
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