Mike Flores

“I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.”
― Mata Hari

“Life speeds by and no matter how much joy there is, there is sadness.”
― Penn Jillette, Every Day is an Atheist Holiday!

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“Venus of Willendorf carries her cave with her. She is blind, masked. Her ropes of corn-row hair look forward to the invention agriculture. She has a furrowed brow. Her facelessness is the impersonality of primitive sex and religion. There is no psychology or identity yet, because there is no society, no cohesion. Men cower and scatter at the blast of the elements. Venus of Willendorf is eyeless because nature can be seen but not known. She is remote even as she kills and creates. The statuette, so overflowing and protuberant, is ritually invisible. She stifles the eye. She is the cloud of archaic night.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson