"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God.""
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Source: Pablo Picasso, Anne Baldassari (2005). “The surrealist Picasso”, Flammarion-Pere Castor
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