February 25 is the birthday of French painter and sculptor PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919).

"For me, a picture must be a pleasant thing, joyous and pretty — yes, pretty. There are too many unpleasant things in life for us to fabricate still more."

"The pain passes but the beauty remains."

Renoir "was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that 'Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau.'" (Wikipedia)

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February 25 is the birthday of Italian tenor ENRICO CARUSO (1873-1921).

"I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing."

"Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face."

Caruso "was an Italian operatic first lyric tenor then dramatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. Generally recognized as the first international recording star, Caruso made around 250 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920." (Wikipedia)

February 25 is the birthday of the often-overlooked but brilliant-in-his-own right Marx Brother, HERBERT MANFRED "ZEPPO" MARX (1901-1979).

"As with all of the Marx Brothers, various theories exist regarding the origin of Zeppo's stage name. His older brother Groucho said in his Carnegie Hall concert in 1972 that the name was derived from the Zeppelin airship, and Zeppo's ex-wife Barbara Sinatra repeated this claim in her 2011 book Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank. In his 1961 autobiography Harpo Speaks!, older brother Harpo said that there was a trained chimpanzee named Mr. Zippo that Herbert would imitate, but when Herbert objected to being named after a chimp, it was altered to Zeppo. In a rare television interview years later, Zeppo said that "Zep" was Italian-American slang for "baby", and the name fit as he was the youngest of the brothers." (Wikipedia)

February 25 is the birthday of German actor GERT FRÖBE (1913-1988).

Fröbe is best known for playing the titular role in the classic James Bond film GOLDFINGER.

JAMES BOND: You’ll kill 60,000 people uselessly.

GOLDFINGER: Hah. American motorists kill that many every two years.

February 25 is the birthday of English author ANTHONY BURGESS (1917-1993).

Burgess is probably best known for the script for the TV mini-series "Jesus of Nazareth" and his novel "A Clockwork Orange," from which the following description of Beethoven's music comes.

"Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva. And there was the slow movement and the lovely last singing movement still to come. I was cured all right."