SIMPLE TO COMPLEX TO SIMPLE
Life is a journey from simplicity through complexity and back to simplicity. In 1966, there was a famous exhibit of Picasso’s paintings at Cannes, France. It was a retrospective exhibit, covering all the phases of his career, from those paintings in his so-called “blue period” to those he painted late in life. Picasso, himself was there at that exhibit. He must have been 85 years old. At the exhibit, a woman approached Picasso and said, “I don’t understand those paintings over there on that side of the exhibit, those you painted when you were just starting out. They seem so mature, so serious, so somber. Those paintings over here, the ones that you most recently have completed, they seem so simple, so joyful, even irrepressible. I would have thought it would be the reverse. How do you explain it?” Picasso said, “It’s simple. It takes a long time to become young.” From a sermon by Mark Potter
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