Anne Sinclair > Quotes

“Thanks to various networks, between three and four thousand French citizens managed to reach the United States in this way.”
― Anne Sinclair, My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War

“that Georges Bizet had borrowed his tune for L’Arlésienne from a theme by Michel-Richard Delalande,”
― Anne Sinclair, My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War

“Claude Lévy and Paul Tillard titled La Grande rafle du Vel d’Hiv, about the massive July 1942 roundup at a Paris sports stadium where Jews were held in hideous conditions for weeks before being deported to Auschwitz.”
― Anne Sinclair, My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War

“My grandfather thought constantly about the lives of the painters who stayed behind in France, hoping they would be hostile to the occupying forces. Some of them were, but overall, the artists who remained in Paris didn’t distinguish themselves one way or another.”
― Anne Sinclair, My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War

“The route taken by the stolen art objects is now well documented: the German forces looted about thirty-eight thousand apartments.”
― Anne Sinclair, My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War

“The Gestapo could have arrested the painter at any time, but at Cocteau’s request, he was given some protection on the German side by the all-powerful sculptor Arno Breker.”
― Anne Sinclair, My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War

“Mix up your exhibitions in such a way that they attract the whole of your clientele, the part of it that considers itself advanced and the other, more conservative part.”
― Anne Sinclair, My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War

“I at least understood that a woman should try not to be dependent on her husband and that my grandmother would have been better off working. But it was not the way of her generation.”
― Anne Sinclair, My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War

“In fact, as Paul suspected, Braque, Matisse, and Picasso showed no sympathy for the Germans. Other artists, like André Derain, Otto Friesz, van Dongen, Paul Belmondo, and de Vlaminck, did not hesitate to go on tour in Germany. Some even returned as propagandists, so in thrall were they with the Nazi regime.”
― Anne Sinclair, My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War

“Braque also declined Marshal Pétain’s invitation to design the Vichy emblem, “Work, Family, Homeland.” “He wasn’t part of the Resistance. But he was dignified,” writes Dan Franck, “a serious quality in a time of compromises.”
― Anne Sinclair, My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War

“Not to mention the fact that the Americans’ asking refugees to bring some kind of written guarantee that they would be able to earn a living in the United States made it impossible for many to leave.”
― Anne Sinclair, My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War