Quotes are often used here to illustrate the point of a certain blog post but sometimes a quote is just fun to examine on its own, without a lot of wordiness. I often read a quote this way and it sets me off in all sorts of directions, often away from the central theme of the quote. It can be pretty inspirational in this manner. To that end, I am starting a new weekly feature here on the blog called Quote of the Week. I want to focus on themes that relate to painting and some of the central themes of life.
Hopefully, they will be enlightening or, at the very least, interesting.
I am going to kick it off with one of my favorite quotes from Pablo Picasso. It pretty sums up my own criteria for evaluating art. At the top is one of his greater works, the anti-fascist masterpiece Guernica.
There is no past and future in art. If a work of art cannot always live in the present it must not be considered at all.
–Pablo Picasso
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