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  • To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today. -- Claire Messud
  • Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica). -- Pablo Picasso
  • When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.' -- Pablo Picasso
  • The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill. -- Dahr Jamail
  • A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!» -- Slavoj Žižek
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