Letters to Camondo Quotes

“Why does being told to move on make me so angry?”
― Edmund de Waal, Letters to Camondo

“know that there are ways of making something extraordinary out of dispersion. And that this is a way of saying something, of countering the silence of disdain.”
― Edmund de Waal, Letters to Camondo

“And I had to say why this moment mattered. That this was not waiting for someone to give us back what had been stolen, with violence, with terror. That breaking up, our dispersion, our diaspora. That fracture of the four Ephrussi children to four continents of the world, the suicide of their mother, their father a refugee, the murder in the labour camps of uncles and aunts. This wasn’t about art. It was what art carries. This was restitution: a bringing back of something taken.”
― Edmund de Waal, Letters to Camondo