feeling...

... We may not be among the connoisseurs of the abstract school, but we can no longer disown it, and we cannot but acknowledge that it suits modern building better than the classical does — yet this school, like every work of art, does not bear cheapening; it must remain at a lofty level...

And I came to believe, at last, that among our young artists there are good seeds which, given the right soil, would yield the finest fruit. I felt for these energetic artists, living their artistic lives in hardship and privation, spurred on by a green hope and an authentic taste... I feared for them, should the paths of art not be smoothed before them, that they would suffocate in this somber atmosphere in which

art finds no outlet... And I became certain, at last, that it is by the likes of Michel Basbous that Lebanon lifts its head.