"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age."
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Source: Leventis Knew Where the Truth Lies. Speech by Androulla Vassiliou at the opening of A.G Leventis Gallery, Nicosia, March 21, 2014.
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