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8/2/2019 Picasso's Musings on His Art
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IN LIBRO NERO, 1952, PABLO PICASSO WAS QUOTED AS
SAYING:
“IN ART THE MASS OF PEOPLE NO LONGER SEEKS CONSOLATION
AND EXALTATION, BUT THOSE WHO ARE REFINED, RICH,
UNOCCUPIED, WHO ARE DISTILLERS OF QUINTESSENCES, SEEK
WHAT IS NEW, STRANGE, ORIGINAL, EXTRAVAGANT,
SCANDALOUS. I MYSELF, SINCE CUBISM AND BEFORE, HAVE
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SATIFIED THESE MASTERS AND CRITICS WITH ALL THE
CHANGING ODDITIES WHICH PASSED THROUGH MY HEAD, AND
THE LESS THEY UNDERSTOOD ME, THE MORE THEY ADMIRED
ME. BY AMUSING MYSELF WITH ALL THESE GAMES, WITH ALL
THESE ABURDITIES, PUZZLES, REBUSES, ARABESQUES, I
BECAME FAMOUS – AND THAT VERY QUICKLY. AND FAME FOR A
PAINTER MEANS SALES, GAINS, FORTUNE, RICHES. AND TODAY,
AS YOU KNOW, I AM CELEBRATED, I AM RICH.
BUT WHEN I AM ALONE WITH MYSELF, I HAVE NOT THE
COURAGE TO THINK OF MYSELF AS AN ARTIST IN THE GREAT
AND ANCIENYT SENSE OF THE TERM. GIOTTO, TITIAN,
REMBRANDT WERE PAINTERS. I AM ONLY A PUBLIC
ENTERTAINER WHO HAS UNDERSTOOD HIS TIMES AND
EXPLOITED AS BEST HE COULD THE IMBECILITY, THE VANITY,
THE CUPIDITY OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES. MINE IS A BITER
CONFESSION, MORE PAINFUL THAN IT MAY APPEAR, BUT IT HAS
THE MERIT OF BEING SINCERE.”