genius

painters no longer live within a tradition and so each one of us must re-create an entire language.

every painter of our times is fully authorized to re-create that language from a-z.

no criterion can be applied to him priori, since we don't believe in rigid standards any longer.

in a certain sense, that's a liberation but at the same time it's an enormous limitation, because when the intividuality of the artits begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.....

pablo picasso, in conversation with francoise gilot, early 1950's

you will always be in my heart, as one of the most influential artists of all time.

and i love you for this