"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state."
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Source: Pablo Picasso, Markus Müller, Jean-Louis Andral, Bernard Ruiz Picasso, Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster (2002). “Pablo Picasso: the time with Francoise Gilot”, Kerber Verlag
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