Reasons to be Cheerful is a book about British graphic artist Barney Bubbles (July 1942 – November 1983).
Written by Paul Gorman, the book incorporates an essay by Peter Saville, a foreword by Malcolm Garrett, an introduction by Billy Bragg and a conversation with US practitioner Art Chantry.
It has been published in two editions by independent British imprint Adelita; the first came out in November 2008, the second in December 2010.
Famous quotes containing the words reasons to, reasons and/or cheerful:
“Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be—to speak Greek—Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial—out of profundity!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“As if her velvet helmet high
Did turret rationality.
She fans her wing up to the winde
As if her Pettycoate were lin’de
With reasons fleece, and hoises saile
And humming flies in thankfull gaile”
—Edward Taylor (1645–1729)
“Nothing more cheerful than talking about our friends’ shortcomings.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)