Linux Art

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
                -- actress Mary Pickford, 1925

Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something
strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

After a few boring years, socially meaningful rock 'n' roll died out. It was
replaced by disco, which offers no guidance to any form of life more
advanced than the lichen family.
                -- Dave Barry, "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"

Alex Haley was adopted!

All art is but imitation of nature.
                -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talkin' about him, ain't listening.
                -- Marlon Brando

An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it.

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but
television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and
world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers
whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
                -- Dave Barry, "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"

Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representation
of contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation of
anything -- except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting upright
in a chair and chewing gum simultaneously.
                -- Richard Schickel

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it.