Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the
brain can conceive beyond any canon.When we love
a womanwe don't start measuring her limbs.
- Pablo Ruiz y Picasso In an interview with Christian Zervos, editor of
Cahiers d'Art,
translatedbyAlfred H BarrJr in his Picasso: FiftyYears of His Art (1946).