The story goes that Picasso was sitting in a Paris café when an admirer approached and asked if he would do a quick sketch on a paper napkin. Picasso politely agreed, swiftly executed the work, and handed back the napkin — but not before asking for a rather significant amount of money.
The admirer was shocked: “How can you ask for so much? It took you a minute to draw this!”
“No”, Picasso replied, “It took me 40 years”
Experience is so often over looked when it comes to looking at numbers. Quality is why you got the job…Experience is why you have the quality.
Image via Wikimedia Commons
Vrai! Finnian Cornelison
ReplyDeleteYes...Give the artist a gun?
ReplyDeleteKnud Thirup It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
ReplyDeleteGun is power, knowledge is power and experience also is power...
What really matters is how wise we use everything.
How sad for the elite that they are so sorely undervalued. lol
ReplyDeleteIronic then that Ayn Rand (whose Objectivism raised elitism and income disparity to a utopian ideal) didn't appreciate Picasso's esthetic: http://obsequiosity.home.mchsi.com/philosophy/aesthetics.html
She liked Dali though! So there are two tings I could agree with her on.
I'm putting on my asbestos jacket as protection from the flames that may ensue... =D
This, and more:
ReplyDeletehttp://drycreekchronicles.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/knowing-where-to-tap/
Bob Schlette I explained above why I choose the picture...Picasso used to say " I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them" =)
ReplyDeleteI explained how I see the gun in this post ;)
Otto Hunt thanks for the reference.
ReplyDeleteSean Walker unfortunately I do not like A. Rand, I think she was parallel with art and style. I mean just look at her photos..lol
ReplyDeleteHowever I like Dali, which for me is the father of surrealism ;)
Corina Marinescu I can't stand Ayn Rand either. My reference to her was due to the irony I saw.
ReplyDeleteVery true...thanks for sharing that
ReplyDeleteAs an artist myself I couldnt agree more!
ReplyDeletePicasso was a hard - working artist whole his long live - Picasso did not had any speculations like Len Smiths - he was a genius!!!
ReplyDeleteEnd of the story. - Happy Christmass.
ReplyDeleteAgreed
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