"Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are — objective pictures. He mumbled he wasn’t quite sure what that would be.
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The person who was bullying him produced a photograph of his wife from his wallet and said, 'There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is.' Picasso looked at it and said, 'She is rather small, isn’t she? And flat?'”
— Gregory Bateson