“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. After all, what is a painter? He is a collector who gets what he likes in others by painting them himself. This is how I begin and then it becomes something else.”

— Pablo Picasso

Quoted in: Ann Livermore (1988), Artists and Aesthetics in Spain. p. 154
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Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stag… 1881–1973

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