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“Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.”
― Marina Abramović

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“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, procrastination

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“. . . I just don't think humanity is the ultimate end. We're so smug about ourselves, secure about how much we know. Well, I've lived with cats most of my life, so I'm very aware that there's another world going on. . . . it sees everything differently, hears everything differently, and probably thinks differently.”
― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

tags: animals, different-worlds, humans, perceptions

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“Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.”
― Wallace Stevens

tags: light-dark

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“All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.”
― Edward Gorey

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