Two Quotes for the Day

I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment. And with our gastronomical growth will come, inevitably, knowledge and perception of a hundred other things, but mainly ourselves. Then Fate, even tangled as it is with cold wars as well as hot, cannot harm us.
-M.F.K. Fisher, conclusion from How to Cook a Wolf

We artists are indestructible; even in prison or even in a concentration camp. I would be almighty even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
-Pablo Picasso