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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator… — Pablo Picasso

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.

Pablo Picasso
1964
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PaintingArt
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1964
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Pablo Picasso
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Picasso, Pablo. Quoted in Life with Picasso, written by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake. McGraw-Hill, 1964, pt. 6.

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