Zurab Tsereteli, was president of the Academy of Fine Arts

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In the same film that was shown on Culture, showing the everyday of his life. And he writes every day for one picture. Tell me, what normal artist writes with such fecundity? If Da Vinci wrote in a day on the picture, would he be what he is?
 Dumps into the palette of a tube of each color takes fleyts 20ku, and drove ... And then so proudly displays his studio, littered as wallpaper, and laments that there is no place to fold the picture. And what is the value of such a picture? The price is her, I think, lay down, but it is her artistic merit? I like, and the gift is not necessary. Now have to endure, bear, endure it, as an actor his role and perform - this is a technical matter. I think so. And his painting is obtained for the sake of art, like smoking, just a bad habit.
 He is certainly a talented manager, a workaholic, but an artist, so-so. A great his work is the way came to the Court of the new Russia. What else can be so revealing to illustrate "greatness" of the new Russia? Just as Russia's greatness and the greatness of his sculptures are very nominal. Not for nothing that the French have refused to De Gaulle. And they understand that in art.