“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

— Pablo Picasso

Quoted in: LIFE http://books.google.com/books?id=9EgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9, Vol. 57, nr. 11 (11 September 1964). p. 9. <br class="br">1960s

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