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Dominique de Menil

Dominique de Menil (March 23, 1908 – December 31, 1997) was a French-American art collector, philanthropist, founder of the Menil Collection and an heiress to the Schlumberger Limited oil-equipment fortune. She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1986.

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Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

Art, Justice, Silence

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

Inspirational, Love, Principles, Unifying

God waits for us to create him.

Create, God, Waiting, Waits

In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.

Attitude, Explode, Imperative, Needs, Ready, Teeth

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Action, Dignity, Intolerable, Moving

Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name. . . What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.

Anguishes, Beautiful, Dream, Hope, Primitive, Sex

We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dignity, Ifs, Intolerable, Lose, Tolerate

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

Abstract, Art, Divine, Nobody, Threshold

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