Quote of the Day for 2016-05-31

"Every body is a critic."

— Robert Southey (1774-1843) Letter to Robert Rickman (May 30, 1804)

Waldorf and Statler from The Muppet Show (circa 1975)

Quote of the Day for 2016-01-25

"The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand."

— George Moore (1852-1933) "Balzac," Impressions and Opinions

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dismissed by most critics when it was first released (1975). On the screen, Nell Campbell, Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry, and Richard O'Brien. On the stage at the Art Theater in Long Beach California, Mandi Wallingford, Jessika Turner, Diego Sanson and Paco Erskine (November 2012)

Quote of the Day for 2015-11-22

"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

— Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) A Room of One's Own, chapter 3

The Temptation of St. Anthony by Joos van Craesbeeck (circa 1650)