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| door Sadiq Alam* | |
| maandag, 28 juli 2008 | |
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Everything you can imagine is real.
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' “Everyone
wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a
bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us,
without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand. If
only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity,
that he himself is only an insignificant part of the world, and that no
more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other
things which please us in the world though we can’t explain them;
people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong
tree.”
- Picasso (Oct 25, 1881 - Apr 8, 1973), The most
famous artist of the 20th century. Full name: Pablo Diego José
Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la
Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso.
In 1956, Picasso would comment, referring to some school children and their drawing: “When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.”
Reference: Pablo Picasso, Art History Archive
Drawing above: by Lily (5), blessings to her imagination.
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*Sadiq Alam is opgegroeid in Bangladesh. Hij studeert momenteel in de Verenigde Staten en schrijft op zijn blog over mystiek, vergelijkende religie en integrale spiritualiteit.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
“Everyone
wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a
bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us,
without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand. If
only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity,
that he himself is only an insignificant part of the world, and that no
more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other
things which please us in the world though we can’t explain them;
people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong
tree.”