"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors."
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Source: Pablo Picasso (1972*). “Picasso: 90 Drawings and Works in Colour”
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