And I'm just wondering how you respond to that, what is the response of you, because of the pain of the world, and because somehow it is irresponsible to put out art that is not beautiful.

我想知道，您的回应是什么，您对这种观点怎么看，因为我们身边有太多的痛苦,而摒弃那些不美丽的艺术又有些不负责任。

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If you go down into France, if you go to la belle France, the painting is dominated by nobles who want pictures of themselves, or the tiresome Sun King and all his sort of miserable and all his sort of miserablehangers-on, very rich, miserable hangers-on.

如果你到了法国,"美丽"的法兰西,这些画作被,那些想为自己留像的士绅们所拥有,或者被令人讨厌的"太阳王",以及他可悲的走狗们,富有但却可悲的走狗们所拥有

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