"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you"
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Source: Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult
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