“Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.”
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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.
