"From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades."

-- Martin Filler

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“Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.”
“I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist, he considers himself an artist, and so he takes on the responsibility of speaking for those who are not given the means or the opportunity.”
“In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.”
“I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.”
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
“I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.”
“How is it possible to exist with so much pain?”
“Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.”

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