Driscoll Reid (Aka: Hørne)

The Four Horsemen

“The leading horse is white
The second horse is red
The third one is a black
The last one is a green”

—Aphrodite’s Child, The Four Horsemen, from the album 666, 1972.

a buff

“‘Bring me that muslin,’ said Mrs. Glegg; ‘it’s a buff—I’m partial to buff.’”

—George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860.

this year’s Jazzfest poster

the pitiable fashion of those antiquated times

“The mother was getting fond of her tall, brown girl, the only bit of furniture now on which she could bestow her anxiety and pride; and Maggie, in spite of her own ascetic wish to have no personal adornment, was obliged to give way to her mother about her hair and submit to have the abundant black locks plaited into a coronet on the summit of her head after the pitiable fashion of those antiquated times.”

—George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860.

Woman jailed for ‘worshipping tea pot’

everything is going away from us

“‘Oh but, Tom,’ said Maggie, her eyes filling with tears. . . . ‘I thought we should never part with that while we lived—everything is going away from us—the end of our lives will have nothing in it like the beginning!’”

—George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860.

a name

“Me—a name I call myself”

—Oscar Hammerstein II, Do-Re-Mi, from The Sound of Music, 1965; quoted in The Life & The Work: Art and Biography, edited by Charles B. Salas, 2007.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

—Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit: Selected from the Writings and Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher, 1887; quoted in The Life & The Work: Art and Biography, edited by Charles B. Salas, 2007.

the new black