At a lunch last year celebrating his 25th anniversary with Jyllands-Posten, Kurt Westergaard told an anecdote. During World War II Pablo Picasso met a German officer in southern France, and they got into a conversation. When the German officer figured out whom he was talking to he said:
"Oh, you are the one who created Guernica?" referring to the famous painting of the German bombing of a Basque town by that name in 1937.
Picasso paused for a second, and replied, "No, it wasn't me, it was you."
Read the rest of the article by Flemming Rose.
Translated transscripts of complete interviews with Kurt Westergaard
ReplyDeleteMurder plot to kill Muhammed cartoon artist Kurt Westergaard - DR February 2, 2008 - English translation of complete transscript of TV interview
More interesting older interview with Kurt Westergaard and Imam Kasem Said Ahmad - English translation of transcript of the program.
Kurt Westergaard would do it again - Interview with cartoonist Kurt Westergaard September 24 2006