“Bright, impossible, impudent, becoming, life-giving, like all the lights and the birds and the fish in the world put together, a color of China and Peru but not of the West – a shocking color, pure and undiluted” - Elsa Schiaparelli

"The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and the truth defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood—is being destroyed."