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[Kit aka emrr]

Does anyone know who said "The frame is the complement you pay to the artist." I've heard it attributed to Degas but can't document it. Kit

The frame in the opening scenes of Bruce Willis' movie "Sixth Sense" is from Larson Juhl's Stradivarius line. (I like to keep my customers entertained with trivia while I total up their order.)

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Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

[colinzo]

The frame is the reward of the artist...Edgar Degas..

[Kit aka emrr]

Thanks Colin. Know any other pertinent quotes? Hey, maybe we could frame them!!!
Kit

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[colinzo]

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

[colinzo]

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

[Kit aka emrr]

Your framing will be done: Well
Fast
Cheap
Pick two.

Looks like this thread is just the two of us.

Kit

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[MerpsMom]

Parkinson's Law

"Work expands to fill the time available for its completion."

[BUDDY]

This is my father's favorite .I am often amazed of it's relavence. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,Then to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
BUDDY

[Kit aka emrr]

Ben Franklin??? Sounds like something he would have said. Kit

"I've had a wonderful time - but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

[Susan May]

"Times fun, when your eating flies!" Kermit the Frog.

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Sue May :)
"Everyone is born right-handed, only the greatest can over come it!"

[colinzo]

Time does not honor that in which it did not take part.......

[colinzo]

"I dont want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it through not dying!"

[Kit aka emrr]

Woody Allen.
I meant quotes about framing - but this is more fun. Kit

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[JRB]

"The harder you work, the luckier you get"
The lady that works with me told me this one.
My all time favorit: " Things are more like they are now than they've ever been before "
That one got Dwight Isenhower a standing ovation.
My biggest money maker, a sign over my work bench at my first shop " The bitterness of poor quality is rememberd long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten "
I don't know who said it but I've got to remember to put it back up.
John

[colinzo]

**** ,there are no rules here...We're trying to accomplish something!

[osgood]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JRB:
"My biggest money maker, a sign over my work bench at my first shop " The bitterness of poor quality is rememberd long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten "
I don't know who said it but I've got to remember to put it back up.
John<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think that quote might be from "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare.

The one I have in my shop for all to see is:

"There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person's lawful prey."

This is part of "The Law of Business"
By John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

Here is the remainder:

"It is unwise to pay too much, but it is also unwise to pay too little.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all.

When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do.

The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot...

It can't be done.

If you deal with the lowest bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run.

And if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better."

[Kit aka emrr]

I abandoned Ruskin years ago when I read that he had deserted his wife on their wedding night after discovering, to his horror, that women have body hair. I may have to give him another look. I LOVE this forum; I learn so much from it. Kit

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[Zorro]

Women have body hair?!!!!!!!!!

"If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you find time to do it over again."

[ArtLady]

-Why did humpty dumpty fall?

-Lack of focus.

-That's right!! Stay on the ball, stay on the wall. -Bart Simpson

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Timberwoman
AL
I cut the mat, I pet the =^..^= cat.

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[ArtLady]

Magic explains everything your customer doesn't know. -R. Silvestri

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Timberwoman
AL
I cut the mat, I pet the =^..^= cat.

[ArtLady]

Magic explains everything your customer doesn't know. -R. Silvestri

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Timberwoman
AL
I cut the mat, I pet the =^..^= cat.

[Kit aka emrr]

ArtLady - You're right about the magic. We keep a magic wand in the shop to wave over those framing projects that are cursed - you know the ones: The multi opening mat has a sub surface flaw; cut the glass wrong (twice) then find a scratch on it; seal up the back then discover a mysterious piece of fluff has materialized inside. The wand works. Of course those pieces have to be set aside overnight to give the magic time to do its stuff. I'm assuming Zorro just uses his sword. Kit

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[ACECRAFTFRAMES]

I faithfully rely on K.I.S.S. and the seven P's

Proper prior planning prevents **** poor performance!(Always take into account the "Kentucky windage factor")

"Why is there never time to do it right the first time ,yet, always time to do it over again?

My favorite all-time shop sign "Aggrevation Charge....15%"

jim

[Kit aka emrr]

We call it a PITA charge, but I think we're talking about the same thing. Kit

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[Greg Gomon]

My girlfriend's favorite quote, drummed into my head. "Never buy ####!"

[woody]

A good picture deserves a good frame...a bad picture DEMANDS a good frame.

[Rick Granick]

A small business motto written by my Dad in a diary years ago:
"Small enough to appreciate your business, large enough to fulfill your every need."

[Margaret]

Unknown?? -"Good morning! This is God. I am going to be handling all your problems today and I don't need your help--so enjoy your day"!

Mark Twain-"Quiting smoking is easy, I've done it a thousand times".----------So have I!!!!!

[colinzo]

experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again...........always and never are two words you should always remember never to use

[colinzo]

"This isnt right.This isnt even wrong!"

[ajhohen]

Confucius say:

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

If at first you don't succeed, deny you ever tried.

If at first you DO succeed, brag, brag brag...

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[Kit aka emrr]

If at first you don't succeed, try doing it my way. Kit

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[Bogframe]

(probably to be edited by the moderator) "There comes a time in every man's life, when he must grasp the bull by the balls, and face the situation" W C Fields

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Seth J. Bogdanove, CPF
21 years framing and still loving it

[JOHNG]

"Life is Like a box of chocolates you never know what your gonna get"That Movie with Tom Hanks I just went blank on the guys name in the movie...

Life is all about choices every choice you make leads to another so choose wisely and dont forgot that making decissions based on financial rewards are always wrong....

[Paul&Nikki]

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
David Dunham

An expert is a person who has made all of the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field...

Last but not least, my favourite for the day(my computer is being a pain in the butt)
"I have not lost my mind-it's backed up on disk somewhere."

Nikki

[MerpsMom]

Forrest Gump. The disk freed up for a second.