The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the
place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a
passing shape, from a spider's web.
-- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist. Conversation avec Picasso,
in Cahiers d'Art, vol. 10, no. 10 (1935; tr. in Alfred H. Barr Jr.,
Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art, 1946).