A glowing miniature sun rises from yellow paint on a wooden artist's palette.

Original artwork, not a still

Pablo Picasso

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Two kinds of artistic ambition get contrasted. One approach shrinks something vast down to a mere detail, while the other builds a whole radiant thing out of almost nothing. It celebrates the second path as the harder, more admirable feat of imagination and skill.

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