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A Beautiful Anarchy

Pablo Picasso was once asked whether he knew, when he started it, what a painting was going to look like when it was finished. "No, of course not," he replied. "If I knew, I wouldn't bother doing it." What Picasso was implying was that the act of painting was the way he discovered what the painting itself would become, that putting his brush to the canvas was an act of exploration before it was ever an act of expression. He was also, I think, implying that the act of exploration was the very reason he painted to begin with. And that should give hope to all of us who are intent on making new things but so often have barely an inkling of what that new thing might look like when we start.

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