"Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
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