My Fellow Inebriates,
Life without art—at least while sober—would be absolutely meaningless.
Contemplating the print Dan Lacey kindly sent me
I love the idea of lurching around an art gallery with a drink in hand (paw).
LBHQ has turned into a bit of an art gallery over the last few years. You can’t see the walls any more.
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
—George Edward Moore
“All art is but imitation of nature.”
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art is spirituality in drag.”
—Jennifer Yane
“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts—such is the duty of the artist.”
—Robert Schumann
“Things are beautiful if you love them.”
—Jean Anouilh
“I think an artist’s responsibility is more complex than people realize.”
—Jodie Foster
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
—Aristotle
“By the work one knows the workman.”
—Jean de la Fontaine
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”
—Andy Warhol
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are.”
—Oscar Wilde
“The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.”
—Hendrik Willem Van Loon
“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.”
—Henry Miller
Liquorstore Bear 
STILL jealous that you got the Obama picture!
I LOVE that picture! I like the whole series but this one ties so many ideas together. Bought a frame for it a few days ago 🙂
I like the one with the spaceship and the bear/gremlin the best.
haha, that’s a chihuahua named Nacho!