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Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it — Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.

André Malraux

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Les gloires, les trompettes, les palmes... et les bas-reliefs,... tout cela fait un monument

pablo picasso

— Translation: The glories, trumpets, palms... and low reliefs,... all that makes a monument.
— Picasso (1952). Quoted in: Michael D. Garval (2004) "A Dream of Stone": Fame, Vision, and Monumentality in Nineteenth-century French Literary Culture. p. 226
— Picasso commented on the matter of the monument destruction in Paris.

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