Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.
In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed. . . . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.