To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

-George Washington

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

-P. G. Wodehouse

Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.

-Gore Vidal

It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it.

-Steven Wright

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

-Aristotle

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don’t help.”

-Calvin

I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

-Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

One of the things I’ve learned on the Google is to pull up maps.  It’s very interesting to see…  I’ve forgotten the name of the program… but you get the satellite, and you can… like, I kinda like to look at the ranch.  It reminds me of where I wanna be sometimes.

-Bush, asked during an interview with CNBC if he ever googled anybody.

The human race is an unfair and stupid competition. A lot of the runners don’t even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some people are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It’s not surprising some people have given up competing altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk food and shout abuse. What we need in this race is a lot more streakers.

-Banksy

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

-Pablo Picasso

BLOGGERS NOTE: My 2 year old son’s complete obsession with his Magna Doodle, and any surface capable of being drawn on with a crayon (including but not limited to: doors, walls, tables, chairs, beds, the floor, important documents and occasionally a coloring book or piece of blank paper), bears out the truth of this quote.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

-James Thurber

If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I’ve seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn’t affect me more than this glass, it’s really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.

For some people it can truly be said that “practice makes perfect”, while for others it simply makes them wrong a lot.

-Vince Labolito

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

-Oscar Wilde

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.