Warmdarksky

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“They had managed to convert their wealth, which had originally been in the form of factories or stores or other demanding enterprises, into a form so liquid and abstract, negotiable representations of money on paper, that there were few reminders coming from anywhere that they might be responsible for anyone outside their own circle of friends and relatives.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

“The most daring flights of genius do not always soar assured when they seek a throne in the fire & find a grave in copious tears.

For knowledge is also a vice: if it is not constantly curbed, & if this is not acknowledged, the greater the havoc it wreaks;

& if the flight is not brought down, fed & fattened on subtleties it will forget the essential for the sake of the rare & strange.

If a skilled hand does not prevent the growth of a thickly leafed tree, its proliferating branches will steal the fruit.”
― Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus