"In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture β then I destroy it. In the end though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else"
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Pablo Picasso
1881 β 1973
spanischer Maler
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