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I've had this Dictionary for years, now it is online.
Jon Flanders
From the "Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce.
PICTURE, n.
A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
"Behold great Daubert's picture here on view
Taken from Life." If that description's true,
Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too.
Jali Hane
PHOTOGRAPH, n.
A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
PAINTING, n.
The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/
Jon Flanders
From the "Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce.
PICTURE, n.
A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
"Behold great Daubert's picture here on view
Taken from Life." If that description's true,
Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too.
Jali Hane
PHOTOGRAPH, n.
A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
PAINTING, n.
The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/
Grist for the cynic. 