Linux Art

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.

        "Are you police officers?"
        "No, ma'am.  We're musicians."
                -- The Blues Brothers

Around the turn of this century, a composer named Camille Saint-Saens wrote
a satirical zoological-fantasy called "Le Carnaval des Animaux."  Aside from
one movement of this piece, "The Swan", Saint-Saens didn't allow this work
to be published or even performed until a year had elapsed after his death.
(He died in 1921.)
        Most of us know the "Swan" movement rather well, with its smooth,
flowing cello melody against a calm background; but I've been having this
fantasy...
        What if he had written this piece with lyrics, as a song to be sung?
And, further, what if he had accompanied this song with a musical saw?  (This
instrument really does exist, often played by percussionists!)  Then the
piece would be better known as:
        SAINT-SAENS' SAW SONG "SWAN"!

Art is a jealous mistress.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
                -- Picasso

Art is anything you can get away with.
                -- Marshall McLuhan.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
                -- Paul Gauguin

Art is Nature speeded up and God slowed down.
                -- Chazal

Art is the tree of life.  Science is the tree of death.