2014 U.S. Open, Part I
“When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up; and for me it’s tennis.” —Roger Federer (1981– ) Attending an early-round match at the […]
“When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up; and for me it’s tennis.” —Roger Federer (1981– ) Attending an early-round match at the […]
“In America they really do mythologize people when they die.” —Robin Williams (1952–2014) Let the mythologizing begin! I found this portrait in chalk of Robin Williams on the pavement near […]
“Beauty and folly are old companions.” —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) With a companion or alone, following the follies in Madison Square Park offers an amusing summer diversion. Mad. Sq. Art is […]
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” —Saint Augustine (AD 354–AD 430) Ever mindful that pride goeth before a fall; here […]
“One day the Great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.” ―Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898, German Chancellor 1871–1898). Bismarck made this prediction in […]
And tulips, children love to stretch Their fingers down, to feel in each Its beauty’s sweet nearer. — from “A Flower in a Letter” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) You […]
“Art is a habit-forming drug, that’s all it is, for the collector, for the artist, for anybody connected with art.” —Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) I must say that I agree with […]