Quotes of the Day
Wednesday, Sep. 27, 2006
It's a slap in the face of artistic freedom, by the artists themselves. The pope showed the way by being so extraordinarily apologetic.
- Michael Naumann
- a former German culture minister and now the publisher of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, on the cancellation of the opera "Idomeneo," which depicts the severed head of Islamic prophet Muhammad
Photo: CLAUDIA ESCH-KENKEL / DPA / LANDOV | Source: New York Times