"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us."
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Source: Anne Baldassari, Pablo Picasso, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1997). “Picasso and photography: the dark mirror”, Flammarion-Pere Castor
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