"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve."
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Source: Denis Thomas, Pablo Picasso (1975). “Picasso and his art”
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