Charles Macaulay

"The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all."

– Sergey Diaghilev (Russian ballet impresario, 1872-1929), to French dramatist and film director Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

Who else just fucking loves the color green

I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest.

Ralph Ellison, interviewed in The Art of Fiction No. 8 (via theclassicsreader)

Birds born in cages

Believe freedom is a crime

“And you are my sacred book. My poem.” 

 – Umar Timol, from “Blood”, translated by Susan Wicks

how many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

— Virginia Woolf