Respect

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MenckenWe must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
–H. L. Mencken

Bus Stop

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Some really nice brushwork by a London city worker (click the pic to see a short video):
Bus Stop
I love how he draws the letters perfectly while stepping around the wet paint, and his helper occasionally pours yellow paint into his paintbrush hopper.

A Little Brain Damage

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CandidateImagesDiscussing his prostate cancer operation at a public event, [Congressman Duke] Cunningham called it “just not natural, unless maybe you’re Barney Frank.” When asked for his reaction, Frank offered that Cunningham “may have suffered a little brain damage” during the surgery.

North Wind In March

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Burchfield - North Wind In March. . . the work went well on the picture – I established firmly the great black North motif in the sky, with wind clouds, the largest of which is spewing forth snow-flurries. I think I have established with the relation of the wind-blown red maples in bloom, and the sky and inevitableness which every picture must have – that is, the assurance that absolutely no other arrangement could possibly be right. . . . This picture gives me great joy. How slowly the “secrets” of my art come to me – it seems to me I have been searching all my life for this motif of Black North combined with the wind-cloud and snow-flurry. When I said this to Bertha, she said “aren’t you thankful that at 71 new secrets are being revealed to you?” and I certainly am.

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, March 30, 1964

Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), North Wind in March, 1960-66; watercolor, 47 1/2 x 59 1/2 inches; OMAA Permanent Collection, Museum of Art of Ogunquit