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Latest comment: 16 years ago by UDScott in topic 2008 comment


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This quoate page reads too much like an article. Perhaps its intro can be shortened. Wolface 22:55, 1 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Good call - I've considerably shortened the intro. ~ UDScott 14:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

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- " What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins... A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is a moment when things can start again. A treasure we all admire, a gift to the Earth."

- "But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland."''

  • All painting but also all literature...is merely a process of going round and round something inexpressible...

- "Anyone in search of a resonant meditation on the instability of built grandeur would do well to look hard at Kiefer’s The Fertile Crescent" - Simon Schama