"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present."
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Source: Jeffrey S. Weiss, Valerie J. Fletcher, Kathryn A. Tuma, Pablo Picasso, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (2003). “Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier”, p.130, Princeton University Press
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