canon quotes

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).