How to Disappear Completely - by Chisel and Sherry Ning
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In praise of mania
Art by Metaleap Creative Pablo Picasso created over 50,000 pieces in his lifetime – paintings and drawings and sculptures and ceramics and collages – each one proof of a voracious obsession that devoured him in the service of creation. Art, for him, was never egalitarian; it was ruled by necessity and it overtook him in the form of obsession. In 1963, on the back cover of a sketchbook, he wrote, “Painting is stronger than me; it makes me do what it wants me to do.” Obsession never asks permission of taste, tradition or public opinion. The word itself comes from the Latin, obsidēre, meaning…
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