Quote of the Day for 2016-08-02

"Instinct and study; love and hate; / Audacity—reverence. These must mate, / And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, / To wrestle with the angel—Art."

— Herman Melville (1819-1891) "Art," Timoleon, Etc. (1891)

Jacob Wrestling With the Angel by Alexandre-Louis Leloir (1865)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-21

"There is a great deal to be said for the Arts. For one thing they offer the only career in which commercial failure is not necessarily discreditable."

— Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) "The Way to Fame"

Andy Warhol, Self-Portraits in Drag, 1980-1982 Polaroid. (In collaboration with Christopher Makos)