Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso
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- It takes a long time to become young.
- Youth has no age.
- The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
- The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
- Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.