Art Restoration Quotes

“It’s a question of legacy. Who else will do this work but us? The men who rarely include them in retrospectives? The visitors who take a quick glance at small placards and move on to those paintings selected to correspond with an odious audio track, which explains to them why they are there, staring at beauty like befuddled children? We live among the intellectually bereft who can’t decipher anything without self-guided tours. Will anyone ever write anything worth a damn
about Mme Gabiou? About her sisters, her cousin, that entire ingenious family of Lemoines, pupils of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard? About you? You, one in a million women with dreams and the luck of a little talent? I think not, my dear, I think not.”
― Stephanie Dupal, The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories

“On the street, cars hurtled toward their destinations in a symphony of sound. Trees lined the pavement in a powerful show of survival: here they stood in this urban landscape, long-limbed and capable. And green, so green, sunlight pierced through their leaves and marked the concrete with dappled grays. I made my way home to my family, one among a million travelers crossing the city’s
great canvas in quick strokes. Everywhere there were colors by the thousands—tint upon tint, shade after shade—of everything the spectrum of beauty satisfied. Everywhere, there were signs of the renewal and restoration of life.”
― Stephanie Dupal, The Kindness of Terrible People and Other Stories