Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Jean Rousset
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"Art is only concerned with the real.” "Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality." This quote is most known as the most famous of the 20th century, but it wasn't by Picasso who said it. It was by his teacher, Jean Cocteau, who re-wrote the quote. The original quote is from Henri Matisse.

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