"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas."
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Source: Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult
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