The first quote reminded me of some on the Grotesque I have saved. There's more but I don't have the time to find them all right now. Peep the Grotesque papers post as that's where they're from.:
“Purity is the enemy of change, of ambiguity, of compromise (Ibid:200) – Mikhail Bakhtin (Rabelais and His World)
“Frances S. Connelly’s new study responds to a critical lacuna in art-historical scholarship, namely, the absence of a comprehensive “study of the grotesque in the modern era, despite its pervasive and insistent presence from 1500 onward” (18). In order to address this gap, the author moves away from the traditional definition of the grotesque that negatively describes this category in relation to its perversion of normative types. Connelly instead elucidates a grotesque that is shaped by what it does; it is an art that “ruptures boundaries, compromising them to the point where they admit the contradiction and ambiguity of a contrasting reality” (10).
Also, I forgot to share last year when I found the coolest word. I'm obsessed with it and have worked into my philosophy: Eigengrau (German for "intrinsic gray" or "own gray") is the uniform, dark-gray color that we see in total darkness, caused by random electrical signals in the optic nerve.