The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.
Pablo PicassoCan you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-Josรฉ Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Nรฉpomucรจne Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.
Pablo PicassoAll children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
Pablo Picasso