"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important."
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Source: Hélène Parmelin, Pablo Picasso (1965). “Picasso; the artist and his model: and other recent works”
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