“Works of art which cannot be understood in themselves but need some pretentious instruction book to justify their existence will never again find their way to the German people.”

—  Adolf Hitler

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Source: Adolf Hitler as in a speech the summer before the Degenerate Art Exhibition as quoted without citation in " Degenerate art: Why Hitler hated modernism http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24819441" by Lucy Burns, BBC.

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