Georges Pompidou Quotes

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

Contemporary art, art which is in essence contradictory : as strict as mathematics or violently lyric, sincere to the point of shamelessness or insolent in deception, an explosion of colour or joy or a negation of everything, including oneself, it is always on the lookout for tomorrow. Isn't this the image of our world ?

If contemporary art touches me it is due to this tense and fascinating search for the new and unknown.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.