Francis Ford Coppola: If you don't bet, you don't have a chance to win. It's so silly in life not to pursue the highest possible thing you can imagine, even if you run the risk of losing it all, b/c if you don't pursue it you've lost it anyway. You can't be an artist + be safe.

David Niven: Hollywood was hardly a nursery for intellectuals. It was a hotbed of false values, it harbored an unattractive percentage of small-time crooks + con artists, + the chances of being successful there were minimal. But it was fascinating, + if you were lucky, it was fun

Vilhelm Hammershoi: 'Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams,' 1900, oil on canvas.

L A Ring (1854-1933): 'Harvest Scene Near The Village Of Ladby,' 1892

Gustave Courbet: 'The Black Rocks at Trouville,' 1866

Claude Monet: 'Wood Lane,' 1876

Superman: "Dance, clown, dance!"

ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY, September 16, in 1964, The Beatles met Fats Domino in New Orleans. 'Ain't That a Shame' was featured in their club sets, and John and Paul both later recorded it on their own.

Batman vs. Superman

Adam West and Donna Loren, the Dr. Pepper Girl, working on Batman in 1966, aka the #bestyearever . Her single "Muscle Bustle' was cowritten by Brian Wilson. #truewest