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• 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....
• Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
  -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) -- Picasso Speaks, in The Arts (May 1923)...
• We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realize truth -- at least the truth that is given us to understand.
  -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)...
• There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.
  Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)...
• If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you. -- Pablo Picasso
• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -- Pablo Picasso
• If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art. -- Pablo Picasso
• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
• I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty.
  What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like....