Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by Nikolay Kuznetsov, 1893

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893)

“Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.”

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Tchaikovsky in his teens

I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard! It annoys me that this self-inflated mediocrity is hailed as a genius.

Tchaikovsky, in his diary, October 9, 1886

Groucho Marx

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

He Who Gets Slapped // dir. Victor Sjöström

Bombardment, Philip Guston,1938.

Buster Keaton

Always been more of a Buster-lover than a Chaplin one.