Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which surrounds man, without attempting to understand them? Whereas where painting is concerned, they want to understand. … Those who attempt to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.” (1934)

Oct. 25, 1881-April 8, 1973