Quote of the Day for 2016-01-24

"Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising."

— Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) Enemies of Promise, part 2, chapter 13

First Steps, after Millet by Vincent Van Gogh, while at Saint-Paul Asylum (January 1890)

Quote of the Day for 2015-10-13

"Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up. Execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children."

— Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) Quoted in The Observer, March 7, 1937

Banksy piece in the South Bronx, October 21, 2013