Faces - Picasso


Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?



A woman approached Picasso in a restaurant, asked him to scribble something on a napkin, and said she would be happy to pay whatever he felt it was worth. Picasso complied and then said, “That will be $10,000. ”

“But you did that in thirty seconds,” the astonished woman replied.”

“No,” Picasso said. “It has taken me forty years to do that.”



































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