"Allowing that the function of art is to transmute what in reality is almost unbearable, what in life is so moving because it is so beautiful or so frightening that we can hardly face it straight for ourselves, then the attitude of an artist who takes such experiences apart for us and puts them together again in a manner that we can look at them is ... idealistic ... creating a work of art is (an act) of faith in man's ability to construct as well as destroy ... the artist's optimism is to be shared; all good work is a celebration of affection."
from Picasso by Keith Sutton, published by Paul Hamlyn, London, 1962.
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