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“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
― Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
“Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.”
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“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
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“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.”
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“Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.”
― Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
― Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
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