I don't know what is going on with my computer. It has a virus or something attacking it. I have a great book about picasso that has quotes from him that my mom would borrow to read to her class. I want to blog one of those quotes today.....
"Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the songs 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. If only they would realize above all that an artist works out of necessity, that he himself is only an insignificant part of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures usually are barking up the wrong tree."
I had a painting of three teacups in an art show many years ago and the judge came and talked to me and about how two teacups were touching each other and the third was a little off by itself and how that meant loneliness and not relating to the other teacups. Give me a break. It was just a painting of teacups!
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