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Qoute of the moment

Men had made those masks and other objects for a sacred purpose, a magic purpose, as a kind of mediation between themselves and unknown hostile forces that surrounded them, in order to overcome their fear and horror by giving it a form and an image. At that moment I realized that this was what painting was all about. Painting isn't an aesthetic operation, it's a form of magic - designed as mediation between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires. When I came to that realization, I knew I had found my way. Pablo Picasso, upon discovering African art for the first time at the Trocadero Museum, Paris, spring, 1907.

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