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Sandro!
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Any of your works can do credit
to the world's finest museums.
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Excuse me, Nino.
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That's the kind of painting we need:
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serious, thoughtful, profound.
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Dear Sandro!
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ls it really impossible
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that our contemporaries would have
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such spiritually inspired faces,
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instead of the stereotyped, soulless
physiognomies, all looking alike?
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Why can't we paint
a toiling woman as a Madonna?
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What could be more beautiful than
a working person? Nothing!
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Although you'll have a lot of
antagonists, isn't it so, Yelena?
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Of course, it's absolutely true.
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They will say:
''What do we need this art for?
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This is just chamber art,
fit for a boudoir.
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ln fact, it's escapism.''
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And l would say to them:
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''Sometimes escapism
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means plunging
into the greater reality.
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Our people need
the great reality.''
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Though, do you know how
our enemies may interpret it?
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As a call to anarchy.
Yes, yes, to all-out anarchy.