Now There Is Fame! Of All-hunger, Misery, The Incomprehension By The Public-fame Is By Far The Worst.

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Now there is fame! Of all-hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the
public-fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the
artist. It is sad. It is true.
-- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
-- Quoted in David Douglas Duncan, Picasso's Picassos (1961)

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