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PABLO PICASSO ~ WHAT IS AN ARTIST?

5 December 2011

29th September 1955: Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician? …On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly on the alert to the heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

Pablo Picasso

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