“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

—  Pablo Picasso

La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarte trabajando.
Attributed from posthumous publications
Source: Tomás R. Villasante (1994), Las ciudades hablan: identidades y movimientos sociales en seis metrópolis latinoamericanas. p. 264.

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Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stag… 1881–1973

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