Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree. .Pablo Picasso
About This Quote
Picasso explains his work as a means to self-expression, and his idealized human form as a reflection of humanity. Picasso's genius came from being able to take these simple elements and combine them into a beautiful work of art. He was not trying to explain things, but rather to stimulate the viewer/reader/listener to ask themselves questions. Why is life so beautiful? What does it mean to be human?
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