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"Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones."
🎨 #ArthurRackham, English illustrator, was #BOTD 19 September 1867. #Art #Painting #Illustration
🎨 #KonstantinKakanias, Greek-American painter and illustrator, was #BOTD 18 September 1961. #Art #Painting #Illustration
🎨 #AntonMauve, Dutch painter and educator, was #BOTD 18 September 1838. #Art #Painting
Born on this day: Agatha Christie (1890-1976).
Here's a selection of nightmarish covers by Tom Adams.
#horror #BOTD #CrimeFiction
🥄 #JeremiahDummer, American silversmith, was #BOTD 14 September 1643. #Art
🎨 #MariannevonWerefkin, Russian-Swiss painter, was #BOTD 10 September 1860. #Art #Painting
#BOTD: The great Frank Robbins! And if you *still* don't think he was great, well, you're wrong. Plus he & my uncle Ronnie could've been brothers! 😁
"Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it."
🎨 #HenrideToulouseLautrec, French painter and illustrator, was #BOTD 9 September 1901. #Art #Painting #Illustration
🎨 #OziasHumphry, English painter and academic, was #BOTD 8 September 1742. #Art #Painting
#nightmusic
"Mint Green" (by pianist and composer Andrew Shapiro #botd in 1975
(#art by Jennifer Goldberger)
https://t.co/TKZ7SIhDEb
"If you deny me absolute power, how the hell do you expect me to found liberty?"
✒ #VictorienSardou, French author and playwright, was #BOTD 5 September 1831. #Theatre #Literature
“A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.”
“I love you, and because I love you I believe in you...Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you forever.” Tarzan
Edgar R Burroughs, Amer. soldier, author BOTD 1875
The English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was #BOTD in 1797. Mostly remembered for her masterpiece 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus' (1818), she also wrote other great novels such as 'Mathilda' (1819) or 'The Last Man' (1826).
#ClassicLitSaturday "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat" #Caturday
Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, #BOTD 1814,"Carmilla"🎨Yana Moskaluk
"If anything unites Gene Kelly's classic musicals, it’s a belief that no past experience could be horrific enough to prevent you from letting loose that whole-human-race encompassing smile & falling in love with life all over again." -@Ethan_Warren_ #BOTD https://t.co/JkVLJ6MDzC
The extraordinary Gene Kelly was BOTD in 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
"If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando." ~ Gene Kelly #GeneKelly