HB Pablo Picasso, born October 25, 1881

[SteveMR200]

Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But
when I am alone with myself, I haven't the courage
to consider myself an artist, in the great and
ancient sense of the word. . . . I am only a public
entertainer, who understands his age.
--Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
(In Duncan Williams' _The Trousered Ape_ [1971], Chapter 2)

During World War II, a German officer visited Pablo
Picasso's studio and saw a sketch of "Guernica,"
Picasso's graphic painting of the Nazis' horrific
devastation of the Spanish town. "Did you do this?"
the officer asked, obviously disgusted. "No,"
Picasso replied. You did."
--Meredith Benke

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Steve

[The Sanity Inspector]

Using typesetting technology that was not widely available in 1972,
SteveMR200 <Steve...@aol.com> wrote...:

>Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But
>when I am alone with myself, I haven't the courage
>to consider myself an artist, in the great and
>ancient sense of the word. . . . I am only a public
>entertainer, who understands his age.
> --Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
> (In Duncan Williams' _The Trousered Ape_ [1971], Chapter 2)

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/artists/picasso/picasso-Self-Portrait-1938.jpg

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-- Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe,
the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style, he just goes on
trying other things.
-- Picasso, in _Life with Picasso_, 1989

The story is told of Picasso that a stranger in a railway
carriage accosted him with the challenge, "Why don't you paint things
as they really are." Picasso demurred, saying that he did not quite
understand what the gentleman meant, and the stranger then produced
from his wallet a photograph of his wife. "I mean," he said, "like
that. That's how she *is*." Picasso coughed hesitantly and said, "She
is rather small, isn't she. And somewhat flat?"
-- Gregory and Mary Catherine Bateson, _Angels Fear_

--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam

[The Sanity Inspector]

I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But
if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would
not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my
politics.
-- Picasso

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be
unnecessary.
-- ibid

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
-- Salvador Dali

[- Kanga Rose -]

The Sanity Inspector wrote:
> Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
> -- Salvador Dali

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Picasso es español, yo también; Picasso es pintor, yo también; Picasso es un
genio, yo también" .. "Picasso es comunista, yo tampoco.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a
genius, so am I .. Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
~ Dali - lecture "Picasso y yo", (Picasso and I) delivered at Madrid's
María Guerrero theater ( Nov. 1951)

I believe that the magic in Picasso’s work is romantic, in other words, the
root of its upheaval, while mine can only be done by building on tradition.
I am totally different from Picasso, since he was not interested in beauty ,
but in ugliness, and I, more and more, in beauty; but ugly like Picasso and
me, can be of an angelic type.
~ Salvador Dali

Dali's portrait of Picasso (1947)
http://dali.urvas.lt/forviewing/pic32lit.jpg

- Kanga Rose -

[SteveMR200]

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you
become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you
become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead,
I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
--Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

--
Steve