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. . ARISTOCRACY see: "KINGS" see: "ROYALTY" see: "PEOPLE" for other related links Aristocracy has three successive ages,the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, and the age of vanities; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third. --Franηois-Renι de Chateaubriand (17681848) French writer and diplomat. Quoted in John F. Kitto (ed.) _Religion in Common Life, or, Topics Of the Day Regarded_, p. 66 [1895]. And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who! --Daniel Defoe (16601731) English novelist and journalist. _The True-Born Englishman_ [1703] - The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. --Felicia Hemans (17931835) English poet. "The Homes of England" [1849] and see: The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the upper classes Have still the upper hand. --Noλl Coward (18991973) English playwright, actor, and composer. "The Stately Homes of England" [1938 song] - Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. --Dame Edith Sitwell (18871964) British poet and critic. _Taken Care Of: The Autobiography of Edith Sitwell_, ch. I [1965]  ;void(0)) ARIZONA . . Photograph: Sedona. see: "PLACES" for related links Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know. --Charles Kuralt (19341997) American journalist and broadcaster. _Dateline America_ [1979] - Come to Arizona, where summer spends the winter. --anon., booster slogan [1935] ...And where Hell spends the summer. --anon. local resident according to H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. - . . Harold Arlen [Hyman Arluck] (1905-1986) see: "MUSIC" for related links see: "PEOPLE" for related links [Upon Arlen's death:] He wasn't as well known as some of us, but he was a better songwriter than most of us, and will be missed by all of us. --Irving Berlin (18881989) American songwriter. Quoted in Edward Jablonski _Harold Arlen: Rhythm, Rainbows, and Blues_ [1998]. Harold is the most original of all of us. --George Gershwin (18981937) American composer. Quoted in Edward Jablonski _Harold Arlen: Rhythm, Rainbows, and Blues_ [1998]. . . see: "WAR & PEACE" for related links Old soldiers never die; They only fade away! --British Army song [c.1915] - The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. --Calvin Coolidge (18721933) American Republican statesman and President [19231929]. Speech at Northhampton, Massachusetts, accepting the Republican vice-presidential nomination [27 July 1920]. No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war. --Calvin Coolidge (18721933) American Republican statesman and President [19231929]. In a 1925 speech. - Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. --attributed to Claude-Adrien Helvιtius (17151771) French philosopher. For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. Speech to Congress [8 November 1808]. - As a long-time collector of idiotic statements I've noticed that where race once inspired the most sublime idiocies, today's Best Of are inspired by women in the military. They are also much easier to find. Key phrases fairly leap off the page: "pregnant sailors . . .Army called too aggressive . . . lighter and less dangerous hand grenades . . . stepladders added to obstacle courses . . . a training program to stamp out profanity at Fort Hood . . . the possibility of single mothers taking babies to war . . . '' These are statements to read through spread fingers, the way jurors look at autopsy photos. Morning papers are especially dangerous because sudden movements can make you spill hot coffee in your lap. --Florence King (b. 1936) American journalist, essayist, and novelist. "Misanthrope's Corner" [22 December 1997] - The consul called the troops an army who had betrayed military discipline and deserted its standards. He then asked them individually where their weapons were, or their standards, as the case might be, and gave orders that every soldier who had lost his equipment, every standard-bearer who had lost his standard, every centurion, too, who had abandoned his post, should be first flogged and then beheaded. The remainder were decimated. --Livy [Titus Livius] (59 BC17 AD) with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians [EB]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. Cohan & Major note that: This is the earliest recorded example of decimation, the selection by lot of every tenth man for execution. It is probably an instance of the creation of an early precedent for a later practice. It was rarely carried out but was revived at the end of the Republic and used from time to time by emperors. Physical courage is never in short supply in a fighting army. Moral courage sometimes is. --Matthew B Ridgway (18951993) American army general who planned and executed the first major airborne assault in U.S. military history with an attack on Sicily [July 1943]. In _The Korean War_ [1967]. I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlish that is, wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war. --H. Norman Schwarzkopf, III (b. 1934) American general who commanded the U.S. forces in the Gulf War of 1991. In "New York Times" [28 January 1991]. Air power is our initial line of defense, but no one has proved to my satisfaction that we will have only world wars to be settled only by big bangs. . . . Infantrymen at one time or another become indispensable. Nothing we have discovered will reduce the need for brave men to fight our battles. --Maxwell D. Taylor (19011987) American army general and diplomat. c.1955, quoted in his obituary in the "New York Times" [21 April 1987]. You're in the Army now, You're not behind a plow; You'll never get rich A-diggin' a ditch, You're in the Army now. --Tell Taylor (18761937) American entertainer. "You're in the Army Now" [1917 song co-written with Ole Olsen] Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) English poet. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" [1854] The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. --Motto of the United States Army Service Forces in World War II. --- Dear United States Army: My husband asked me to write a recommend that he supports his family. He cannot read, so don't tell him. Just take him. He ain't no good to me. He ain't done nothing but raise hell and drink lemon essence since I married him eight years ago, and I got to feed seven kids of his. Maybe you can get him to carry a gun. He's good on squirrels and eating. Take him and welcome. I need his grub and the bed for the kids. Don't tell him this, but just take him. --Anonymous hand-delievered in 1943 by an Arkansas man to his draft board. In _A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love_, compiled and edited by Jon Winokur. ----- billet (noun) 1. nonmilitary lodging assigned to troops, esp. in a private home. Synonym: quarters 2: a military order making such an assignment. . . see: "BRAGGING" see: "BOLDNESS" see: "CONCEIT" see: "HUBRIS" see: "INSULTS" see: "NERVE (THE)" see: "OFFENSE" see: "SNOBS" see: "VANITY" When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with much splendor and magnificence, with a smile of contempt he said to himself, 'This is all arrogance.' Afterwards some Lacedemonians came his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. 'This,' said he, 'is also arrogance.' --Aelian [Claudius Aelianus] (c. 170222) Roman author and teacher of rhetoric. Format adapted, quoted in: A Gentleman _The Gentleman's Library: Containing Rules For Conduct In All Parts Of Life_ [4th ed., 1744]. Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom. --Bion the Borysthenite (325?255? B.C.) Greek popular philosopher. Quoted in _Proverbs; Or, the Manual of Wisdom_ [2nd ed., 1804]. Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves. --Willa Silbert Cather (18731947) American novelist. _Shadows on the Rock_ [1931] The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. Quoted in "The Spectator" [28 May 1712]. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken. --David Hume (17111776) Scottish philosopher. Quoted in _Cooper's Journal_, p. 295 [1850]. ^^ In 1959, I [Carl Reiner] appeared in a movie called Happy Anniversary, and Mel Brooks came to the wrap party for the cast and crew at a restaurant in the Village. Moss Hart was dining with his wife on the other side of the room. Mel recognized him. All of a sudden, he got up and walked across to Hart's table and said, very loudly, 'Hello. You don't know who I am. My name is Mel Brooks. Do you know who you are? Your name is Moss Hart. Do you know what you've written? You wrote 'Once in a Lifetime' with George S. Kaufman, and 'You Can't Take It with You' and 'The Man Who Came to Dinner'. You wrote 'Lady in the Dark' and you directed 'My Fair Lady'. And he ran right through the list of Hart's credits. You should be more arrogant! he shouted. You have earned the right to be supercilious! Why are you letting me talk to you? --http://anecdotage.com/ ^^ Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. --Frank Lloyd Wright (18671959) American architect. _The Future of Architecture_ [1953] ----- haughty (adj.) ['haw-tee] Proud, self important, snobbish, arrogant. supercilious soo-puhr-SIL-ee-uhs, (adj.): Disdainfully arrogant; haughty.  ART . . see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses. --attributed to Lord Beaverbrook (18791964) Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. --Henry Ward Beecher (18131887) American Congregational minister; brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher. _Norwood; or, Village in New England_, vol. I, ch. 10 [3 vols., 1867] I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. 'Labor,' he in effect said, 'is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.' Turning then to another 'And you,' I inquired, 'what do you consider as the great force in art?' 'Love,' he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. --Christian Nestell Bovee (18201904) American writer. _Intuitions and Summaries of Thought_, vol 2, p. 5 [2 vols., 1862] Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. --Al Capp (19091979) American cartoonist. In "National Observer" [1 July 1963]. The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (18741936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. "Roman Converts", in _Dublin Review_ [1925]. The prudent painter should know how to paint what is appropriate to the individual, the time and the place. . . . Is it not an error to paint St. Jerome with a red hat, like the one cardinals wear today? He was indeed a cardinal, but he did not wear such a costume, since it was Pope Innocent IV, more than 700 years later, who gave cardinals their red hats and red gowns. . . . All this proceeds from the ignorance of painters. --Gilio da Cybele "Dialogue on the Error of Painters" [1564] Quoted in Daniel J. Boorstin _The Discoverers_ [1983]. Art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its handkerchief, that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance too. --W. E. B. Dubois (18681963) American civil rights leader. _Dusk of Dawn_ [1940] Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Wealth" in _The Conduct of Life_ [1860]. Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. --Gustave Flaubert (18211880) French novelist. Letter to Louise Colet [25 November 1853]. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre_ (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship), bk. 5, ch. I [17951796] One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away. --Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) American novelist and short-story writer. _The Marble Faun_ [1860] Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ever lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. --George Stillman Hillard (18081879) American lawyer and author. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 35 [1872]. Dead he is not, but departed for the artist never dies. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Nuremberg_, st. 13 Art, true art, is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. --Amy Lowell (18741925) American poet. Posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1926. _Tendencies in Modern American Poetry_, ch. I, "Edwin Arlington Robinson" [1921 ed]. ^ Henri Matisse (18691954) French painter. Matisse's painting, _Le Bateau_ hung upside down in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for forty-seven days before anyone noticed (October 18-December 4, 1961). In that period 116,000 had visited the gallery. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense has ever painted a picture worth looking at. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Prejudices: First Series_ [1919] "The Blushful Mystery: Art and Sex" ^^ Amedeo Modigliani (18841920) Italian painter and sculptor. Modigliani's admiration of Utrillo was reciprocated. On the occasion of their first meeting, they began by paying each other extravagant compliments. 'You are the world's greatest painter,' said one. 'No, *you* are the world's greatest painter,' said the other. 'I forbid you to contradict me.' 'I forbid you to forbid me.' The argument became heated. 'If you say that again, I'll hit you.' 'You are the greatest' and they fell to blows. Later, they made up over several bottles of wine at a nearby bistro. As they went out into the street, one said, 'You are the world's greatest painter.' 'No, you are.' And so the fight broke out again, until both combatants were down in the gutter, where they went to sleep. In the early dawn they woke up to discover that they had been robbed. _Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000] ^^ ^^ Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, "You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his job." --Claude Monet (18401926) French painter who was the leader of the Impressionist movement in France. Quoted in "Apollo: A Journal of the Arts" [1976]. ^^ ^^ A visitor to Picasso's studio found the artist gazing disconsolately at a painting on the easel. 'It's a masterpiece,' said the visitor, hoping to cheer Picasso up. 'No, the nose is all wrong,' Picasso said. 'It throws the whole picture out of perspective.' 'Then why not alter the nose?' 'Impossible,' Picasso said. 'I can't find it.' _The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Art and Artists" ^^ [Explaining why he still painted when his hands were twisted with arthritis:] The pain passes, but the beauty remains. --Pierre Auguste Renoir (18411919) French painter. Quoted in Sisley Huddleston _Paris Salons, Cafιs, Studios_ [1928]. A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. --Sir Joshua Reynolds (17231792) English painter. Quoted in _Bolster's Quarterly Magazine_ [July 1827]. I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. --Brian Sewell (b. 1931) British art historian and critic. In "Independent" [26 April 1999]. The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish dramatist and critic. _Man and Superman_, act I [1903] Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. --Tom Stoppard [Tomas Straussler] (b. 1937) Czech-born British playwright. "Artist Descending a Staircase" [1972] I am glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. [28 May 1867] Modern Art is a conspiracy between clever parasites and millionaires to make poor people feel stupid. --attributed to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (19222007) American novelist and short-story writer. Paradox though it may seem and paradoxes are always dangerous things it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. "The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue" in _The Twentieth Century, vol. XXV [January-June 1889] The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. --Emile Zola (18401902) French novelist and critic. In Stephen P. Kelner _Motivate Your Writing!_, p. 153 [2005]. - A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. anon., quoted in _Salesmanship: The Standard Course of the United Y.M.C.A. Schools_, vol. 4 [1920], lesson 16, part II, ch. I. ----- aesthete [S-theet], noun: One having or affecting great sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature. Ex.: Beijing, with its stolid, square buildings and wide, straight roads, feels like the plan of a first-year engineering student, while Shanghai's decorative architecture and snaking, narrow roads feel like the plan of an aesthete. --"Sky's the Limit in Shanghai", _Los Angeles Times_, April 25, 1999 atelier (noun) A studio especially for an artist or designer. Synonyms: artist's workroom limn [LIM], transitive verb: 1. To depict by drawing or painting. 2. To portray in words; to describe. In telling these people's stories Mr. Butler draws upon the same gifts of empathy and insight, the same ability to limn an entire life in a couple of pages. --Michiko Kakutani, "Earthlings May Endanger Your Peaceful Rationality," _New York Times_, [10 March 2000] oeuvre (noun) ['oo-vrκ or vr] A creative work or body of creative work. pastiche [pas-TEESH; pahs-], noun: 1. A work of art that imitates the style of some previous work. 2. A musical, literary, or artistic composition consisting of selections from various works. 3. A hodgepodge; an incongruous combination of different styles and ingredients. patina [PAT-n-uh; puh-TEEN-uh], noun: 1. The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals. 2. The sheen on any surface, produced by age and use. 3. An appearance or aura produced by habit, practice, or use. A patina of coal dust lies over everything. -- "A Railroad Runs Through It," review of _Stations: An Imagined Journey, by Michael Flanagan,_ in _New York Times_ [23 October 1994] potboiler [POT-boi-lur], noun: A usually inferior literary or artistic work, produced quickly for the purpose of making money. socle (noun) ['so-kκl] A plain square block that serves as a pedestal for a sculpture, vase, or column. virtu, noun: 1. A love of or taste for fine objects of art. 2. Productions of art (especially fine antiques). 3. Artistic quality. 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