“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived…”

“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.”

— Pablo Picasso

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Title: Wikiquote: Pablo Picasso
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Context

Herschel Browning Chip (1968, p. 271), quoted in Chipp (1978, 266); As cited in: Constance Milbrath (1998), Patterns of Artistic Development in Children, p. 257.

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

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