"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Lessons: This isn't really an art history lesson, but I was feeling a little blue this weekend, so I image Googled "Norman Rockwell" to cheer myself up. He's often dismissed by the "serious" art world as too kitschy, too middle brow, but his talent for facial expressions and for telling a story with his art far surpasses what many of the greater artists of his day could achieve. For example, his paintings of two boys enjoying a smoke and suffering the consequences:
Not one of his most stirring works, but it's worth a thousand of those "This is your brain on drugs" public service announcements.
