:21:01
So I know exactly
of which I speak.
:21:03
And from now on we must make art
with the same unsentimentality,
:21:06
the same principles that we would
the manufacture of bayonets.
:21:08
Bayonets?
:21:09
Yes, or maybe wash bins would work.
- No, we'll stick with bayonets.
:21:13
- Bayonets is a lot sharper.
- Yes it is. Yes.
:21:16
Mind if we take
a look around?
:21:20
Be my guest.
:21:23
Ah, Corporal Hitler.
:21:24
"Hit-ler."
:21:27
Not living in
the barracks anymore?
:21:29
lt's not like there's a lot
of cheap housing
:21:31
around for vets, is there?
:21:33
No, I suppose there isn't.
:21:36
- Can I offer you some coffee?
- No, I never touch it.
:21:39
No caffeine, no alcohol,
no nicotine, no meat.
:21:42
- You're an ascetic.
- Not at all, l'm a man of the people.
:21:46
l see you brought
your goods.
:21:49
Don't expect
anything abstract.
:21:53
l'm a great believer
in Schopenhauer's dictum
:21:55
that art should proclaim,
:21:57
"Yes by God,
this is how it really is."
:22:01
But life can be quite abstract
at times, wouldn't you agree?
:22:05
How do you mean?
:22:07
Sometimes "life," as you say,
won't be captured
:22:11
by the forms and lines
of traditional representation,
:22:14
- especially not these days.
- I disagree completely.
:22:18
Art should only ever reflect
the eternal values
:22:21
and the natural laws,
especially these days.
:22:25
But aren't these eternal values
:22:27
and natural laws
in flux these days?
:22:30
Aren't they meant to be
shrinking and expanding?
:22:33
What are you, some kind
of intellectual wet fart?
:22:37
The eternal values are:
harmonious proportions;
:22:41
nobility and dignity;
:22:43
and the continuation
of the cultural evolution,
:22:46
where each generation stands
upon the shoulders of the next
:22:50
and improves the work
of the last.
:22:54
But this is...
:22:57
10,
:22:58
no, 100 steps backwards.