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Pablo Picasso's Stunning Repetitions

"I am the notebook"

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Jillian Hess
Apr 07, 2025
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Two things were true of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) from a young age: he was rebellious, and he loved to draw. As a child, he was obsessed with sketching, so he would get into trouble to have time alone with his sketchbook.1 Later, barely fourteen years old, while at the the Barcelona School of Fine Arts, when instructed to write “One must learn to paint” …

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