Quote for us to share while we play ring around the rosy

A fine artist by definition is not a commercial… or applied or useful artist. A fine, free or abstract artist is by definition not a servile or professional or meaningful artist. A fine artist has no use for use, no meaning for meaning, no need for any need. —Ad Reinhardt

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

 Herman Melville

50th post hooray!  the title just might whined up to be a poem