"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."
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Source: Conversation avec Picasso. Interview with Christian Zervos, Cahiers d'Art, Volume X, No. 7-10 (pp. 173-178), 1935; later quoted in Richard Friedenthal Letters of the Great Artists From Blake to Pollock translated by Daphne Woodward (p. 258), 1963.
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