A mão direita de Picasso

Brassaï, La main droite de Picasso (1943)

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«I say this because in some inexplicable way it seems to me that the spirit which animates Picasso can never be fully accounted for by his work, no matter how prodigious it may be. Not that I deny the greatness of his work, but that the man himself is and will remain far greater than anything or everything which he accomplishes with his hands. He is so much more than the painter, sculptor, or whatever he may choose to be while breath is in him. He is outsized, a human phenomenon».

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Henry Miller (prefácio), Brassaï, Conversations with Picasso, University of Chicago, 1999, p. x.
Nota: Picasso também era escorpião e nasceu a 25 de Outubro de 1881.