Quote of the Day for 2016-09-04

"And so shall your garden grow; from the rich soil of the humanities it will rise up and unfold in beauty in the pure air of the spirit."

— Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) Kindergarten Chats, chapter 4 (1918)

Academy by Lamplight by Joseph Wright of Derby (1770)

Quote of the Day for 2016-09-03

"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

— Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) "Leaving School—II," The London Magazine (May 1963)

Dick Cavett's Watergate on location in the Senate Watergate Committee hearing room (August 1, 1973) left to right: Senator Herman Talmadge, Senator Daniel Inouye, Senator Lowell Weicker, Dick Cavett, and Senator Howard Baker

Quote of the Day for 2016-08-09

"Half light, half shade, / She stood, a sight to make an old man young."

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) "The Gardener's Daughter," Poems: In Two Volumes, volume 2 (1842)

Marlene Dietrich as Amy Jolly in Morocco (1930)

Quote of the Day for 2016-06-21

"It has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty."

— Frances Burney (1752-1840) Evelina, volume 1, letter vi (1778)

Gillian Anderson as Lily Bart from The House of Mirth (2000) posing in a tableau vivant as Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Ceres (Summer) (circa 1717)

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-18

"BEAUTY, n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."

— Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) The Devil's Dictionary, "B" section (1906)

Portrait of Madame X by John Singer Sargent (1884)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-29

"The flow'rs anew, returning seasons bring; / But beauty faded has no second spring."

— Ambrose Philips (1674-1749) "Lobbin," Pastorals (first set)

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks canoeing on the pool at their Pickfair estate (circa 1920s).

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-12

"Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building."

— Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) The Holy State, Book 2, chapter 7

The living room from Frances W. Little's summer house in Wayzata, Minnesota, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1912, and rebuilt inside the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.