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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso
Age: 91 †
Born: 1881
Born: October 25
Died: 1973
Died: April 8
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