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“It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.”

— Pablo Picasso

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Pablo Picasso
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Context

Picasso (1937), quote in: William Rowlandson (2007), Reading Lezama's Paradiso. p. 115.

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

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