"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it."
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Source: Remark to Fran‡oise Gilot in 1946, in Fran‡oise Gilot and Carlton Lake Life With Picasso (1964) pt. 2
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