The Boy Whose Name Was Stolen By Art

Hippolyte Flandrin - Young Male Nude, 1855


'Mute icons are the only kind of beauty we find acceptable today.'

Mark Rothko

I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again

Frank Miller - Sin City


'Only after disaster can we be resurrected.'

Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), Fight Club, 1999 (d. David Fincher)

Careful, He Can't Hear You

Head Of Christ - 15th-16th C (Netherlands, North Brabant)


'I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.'

Orson Welles

And Yet So Far Away

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau - The Eiffel Tower, 1898


'When good Americans die they go to Paris.'

Oscar Wilde

She Comes In Colours: Part Seven

John Currin - Rotterdam, 2006

She Comes In Colours: Part Six

Vanessa Beecroft - VB55 (7 April 2005, Neuen Nationalgalerie)

She Comes In Colours: Part Five

Cindy Wright - Nipple, 2003

She Comes In Colours: Part Four

Sarah Lucas - Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab, 1992

She Comes In Colours: Part Three

Lucian Freud - Naked Girl, 1968

She Comes In Colours: Part Two

Egon Schiele - Nude, 1910

She Comes In Colours: Part One

François Boucher - Marie-Louise O'Murphy, c. 1752

Tales Of Horological Madness

Clock Face (Alice in Wonderland)


'The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.'

Albert Einstein

Games Of Truth And Chance

Blogopoly Board


'I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.'

Albert Einstein

Ask Questions First

Piet Mondrian - Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black, c. 1924/1925


'We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.'

Albert Einstein

Shoot Later

Jasper Johns - Green Target, 1955


'If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.'

Albert Einstein

When The Wheel Was Square

Kasimir Malevich - Red Square, 1915


'If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.'

Albert Einstein

There's Nothing Simple About Simplicity

Kalachakra Sand Mandala


'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.'

Albert Einstein

In A Galaxy Not So Far Away...

Venus


'Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.'

(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

The Door To Paradise Is Not Always Open

Lorenzo Ghiberti - Adam and Eve, Gates of Paradise, 1425-52


'An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.'

Victor Hugo

A View Of The Biggest Room Of All

Claude Monet - Le Bassin d'Argenteuil, 1872


'A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.'

Marcel Proust