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applies to your wall. Without my sculpture your wall is only a construction. Or this interior decoratortelling [[decorator telling]] his clients for whom he had just decorated an apartment "You don't have the right t to move or displace anything in this apartment, even not this ashtray, because by doing so you risk to commit a blasphemy as great as as if you would change some colors in your Cezanne or your Renoir." Well only to hear such things we can notice their tremendous absurdity. Would you like to know what I think about it? It is a pure expression of the totalitarian spirit and not less than a pr prison for the human being. Or about this artist in lecture at the Museum of Modern Art who said to his audience that if somebody can feel the beauty of a tablespoon he can understand a Michelangelo. 
Ladies and Gentleman, you all will agree with me that it is a long way from a tablespoon to a Michelangelo.
Last year I was in Chicago. At the Chicago Art Institute was at this time an exhibition about techniques of paintings and I remember that a marvelous Caravagio whom the Museum posesses was rebuilt there with a few wires and to see how this fullblooded painting by a great master was reduced to a poor and very discussable skeleton I became sick. It seems that in former times it was otherwise. Look at this image. It comes from the cathedral of Chartres, a          from 13th century who shows how sculpture was in process......slide Chartres,.... That means that the artist was guided by the spirit, by someone who knows. Today the artist is abandoned to himself. A lot more