Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth". .. Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

Blue Balliett
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Pablo Picasso was a very creative man. He started out as a painter in Barcelona, Spain, but he was also an amazing sculptor. He has his own quote that goes something like this: “Art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth." He’s saying that art is just an illusion of something that is not real. When you look at a Picasso painting or sculpture, it may not be what it really looks like, but it's still telling the truth about something that's real.

Source: Chasing Vermeer

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