Happy Birthday, George Bellows

Bellows, Summer Evening, Riverside Drive, 1909

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.  The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

George Bellows, born on this day in 1882.