QuoteQuest“The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Pablo Picasso
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 258 (translation Daphne Woodward)
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Picasso, Pablo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Pablo Picasso. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
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