The following is the transcript of an interview I gave to Michael K. Corbin for his website artbookguy.com his third book on art and its relation to the culture around us.

JAMIESON FLYNN: WARRIOR ARTIST

Jamieson Flynn is an artist and art dealer I met a couple of years ago in Chicago. He doesn’t look or behave like the “stereotypical” art dealer. To me, he just seems like a regular, nice guy. He’s an Irish-Catholic dude from the Southside of Chicago. What else would he be? Anyway, my chat with him is really two interviews in one. I’m especially struck by his art and how he sees it as his take on stained glass windows of cathedrals www.jamiesonmichaelflynn.com. But first, here’s our chat … Continue Reading

“He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.”
– Sir William Drummond
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
– H. L. Mencken
“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.”
– Stanislaw Lem Continue Reading

“If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.”
-Xenophon Greek general & historian (434 BC – 355 BC)

“In war, truth is the first casualty.”
-Aeschylus Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC)

“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.” Continue Reading

“I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.”
-Jules Renard (1864 – 1910)

“It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.”
-Peter De Vries, “The Mackerel Plaza,” 1958

“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
-Richard Dawkins, “The Root of All Evil”, Channel 4 UK, 2006 British ethnologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941 – )

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
-Richard Dawkins, “The Root of All Evil”, UK Channel 4, 2006 British ethologist, geneticist, & popularizer of genetics (1941 – ) Continue Reading