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Friday 19th of April 2024

The arts Get yourself a different woman. Donald Trump's takeaway from Citizen Kane © 2023 Kwiple.com
The arts I'm telling you, Argentina – the mosh pit must have been 50,000 people. They just turn out, right? Now it's the Stones and Bob Dylan. This guy comes up to Nita, who's sitting on the end, at her first-ever concert, and he says to her, “Miss, make a contribution to fight HIV/AIDS, and then you get this gift.” And the gift was a pack of condoms. And she's like, “What? What?” “Never mind, just put it in your purse.” Of all people, 80,000 people in the place, they pick her to go give a pack of condoms to at her first concert ever.  Nancy Pelosi on a concert she and Nita Lowey attended in Argentina while on a security visit © 2019 Kwiple.com
The arts It's meaningless, lady, believe me — I painted it. Caption to Michael Crawford's cartoon depicting a man standing in front of a large abstract painting on a museum wall talking to a woman looking at it © 2016 Kwiple.com
The arts Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee, What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? Spike Milligan, “A Silly Poem” © 2016 Kwiple.com
The arts Somehow, 96% of film critics loved Top Gun  like a Catholic priest loves sleepaway camp. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, September 9, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
The arts Subsidies to poets would make for faster increases in human welfare than more billions for CERN or the space program. Dierdre Nansen McCloskey, Bettering Humanomics  © 2021 Kwiple.com
The arts There are only two things of any importance in the arts: one is a dead client and the other is a dead artist. Peter Wilson, former chairman of Sotheby's © 2017 Kwiple.com
The arts To make words sing Is a wonderful thing — Because in a song Words last so long. “To Make Words Sing” by Langston Hughes © 2017 Kwiple.com
The arts Want to take better pictures? Aim at better stuff. Ralph Lee Hopkins, Director of Expedition Photography, Lindblad Expeditons and National Geographic © 2018 Kwiple.com
The arts When art is made new, we are made new with it. John Russell, The Meaning of Modern Art,  Vol. 1 © 2023 Kwiple.com
The arts When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.  Martin Amis © 2018 Kwiple.com
 
The arts You've handed in a fish, a thrashing, living fish, and you've been given back a fishbone. Edward St Aubyn, quoted in Financial Times, October 21/22, 2017, comparing his Patrick Melrose novels to the screenplay for a television adaptation © 2016 Kwiple.com