To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.Andre Malraux
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day in Normandy-to say nothing of those who had preceded them 25 years before-were much more certain.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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