At the Internet Archive, a scan of the now-famous letter Kurt Vonnegut wrote to friends and family after being liberated from Dresden.

Text of the letter is here. Background here.

“How true it is that concern with morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid!”

–Gustave Flaubert, 1854

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“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”

–Pablo Picasso, c. 1957

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Sources. Flaubert: letter to Louise Colet, January 2, 1854, in Madame Bovary: A Norton Critical Edition (second edition), edited by Margaret Cohen, p 308. Letter translated from the French by Francis Steegmuller. Picasso: Quote Magazine, March 24, 1957. Cited here.