Quote of the Day -- Merce Cunningham

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

-- Merce Cunningham

Quote of the Day -- Edward Degas

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. 

-- Edward Degas

Quote of the Day -- Eugène Delacroix

How strange painting is, it delights us with representations of objects that are not pleasing in themselves! 

--Eugène Delacroix

Quote of the Day -- Friedrich Nietzsche

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul that is cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. 

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Quote of the Day -- William Morris

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

-- William Morris