“...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you g…”

“...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.”

— Pablo Picasso

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Title: Wikiquote: Pablo Picasso
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Context

Paul Jones (2011), The Sociology of Architecture: Constructing Identities. p. 47.

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Picasso, Pablo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Pablo Picasso. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

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