Siddhartha

“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.”
― Margaret Bonnano

“Fiat ars – pereat mundus”, says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of “l’art pour l’art.” Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art.”
― Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

“Quand je danse, je danse. Quand je dors, je dors.”
― MONTAIGNE Michel de

“The music, all violins and cellos, swells in the room, then recedes, like the water out in the Gulf before a big storm.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing