"One does a whole painting for one..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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“Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than anyconception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either intoweak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch theideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.”
“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.”
“If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.”