"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
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Source: Denis Thomas, Pablo Picasso (1975). “Picasso and his art”
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