Carnival Quotes

• I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Child
  • Mask
  • Carnival

• Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Pass
  • Little Kid
  • Carnival

• The sun had tanned her so that the rich velvety blackness of her skin glistened and she felt so much herself on those days of Carnival, soaked so deeply with a sense of her own beauty, that after the festival, she continued to keep her hair in the same fashion and wear her skin with the same pride, the result being that men took her for a foreign woman.

  

  Earl Lovelace
  • Pride
  • Skin
  • Foreign Woman

• Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Trick
  • Not
  • Deaths

• I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Sky
  • Missing
  • Carnival

• The heaviest burden of all is the presence of the war and the increasing superficiality. It gives me incessantly the impression of a bloody carnival.. .I am now like the whores, I once painted in his Berlin-time: the merest brushstroke now, gone tomorrow. Nonetheless I am still trying to put my thoughts in order and, from all the confusion, create an image of time, which is my task, after all.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Image
  • Impression
  • Confusion

• Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Fashion
  • Originality
  • Carnival