Famous quotes containing the words silk and/or mass:
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century’s surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)