Artist Pablo Picasso in his studio. Image from World Art. |
"There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing: What is color?"
So said Pablo Picasso (1881—1973), in a conversation with German writer Ernst Jünger in the 1940s.
SOURCE: Bruce Chatwin, What Am I Doing Here (Penguin, 1989), page 110
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