Art Is Never Chaste. It Ought To Be Forbidden To Ignorant Innocents, Never Allowed Into Contact With Those Not Sufficiently Prepared.

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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents,
never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes,
art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
-- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
-- Quoted in Antonina Vallentin, Pablo Picasso, ch. 11 (1957)

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