Peter ShafferI looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!
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The story of how Pablo Picasso transformed from the ordinary life of a housewife to being one of the most influential artists in history is a lesson for all of us. He was a mediocre painter. He had a wife and children, but he wasn’t a particularly good husband or father. He struggled financially and his wife spent money he didn’t have.
Then, one day, going through a trash can, he found something that gave him an idea. It wasn’t art that he had found, though, it was simply garbage that looked like art to him. The trash can was full of items that had been discarded by other people.
From this trash Can Picasso created his masterpiece “Guernica,” which portrays the horrors of war and the horrors of his countrymen.
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