Dominique de Menil Professions : Art collector Born : March 23, 1908 Died : December 31, 1997 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Dominique de Menil 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. Dominique de Menil dignity action moving 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. Dominique de Menil teeth attitude needs Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art Dominique de Menil silence justice art 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. Dominique de Menil abstract divine art We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. Dominique de Menil tolerate dignity ifs Love and the search for truth are unifying principles. Dominique de Menil unifying principles inspirational God waits for us to create him. Dominique de Menil waiting 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. Dominique de Menil dream beautiful sex Similar Authors Isabella Stewart Gardner art-collector Charles Saatchi art-collector Peggy Guggenheim art-collector All Authors
