• It is very simple, she said quietly. Nothing to understand. It's a two part effort. We continue with or without the authorities, to try to find the art here or with the help of friends abroad. Those crates may be empty but somewhere are the crates that are filled. At the same time, until these are found, or in fact proved destroyed ...
• ... we begin step by step to reconstruct the art that is missing, from memory, from pictures if any exist, from diary entries, by analysis, through invention.
• You can't reconstruct thousands of works of art even if you had the skill. Of course not. We just do one at a time. And we don't imitate or restore or pretend.
• We'll install them in some of the spaces at the Offenes Kulturhaus. And we don't imitate or restore or pretend, It's more like saying: "Hello, I remember you."
• I've been thinking about Rainer's friend, Polly. We should talk to her about this maybe.
• Yes, what about her? Is she a painter?
• She's famous. She trains the restorers used by the key museums in Europe and helps them track down forgers.
• We begin step by step to reconstruct the art that is missing. From memory, from pictures if any exist, from diary entries, by analysis, through invention ...