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So I am the guy, Picasso, Plato, Buddha and can ascribe any value to what I create, by simply believing with no scientific support whatever. That is religion. Since I was not a complete idiot, I had to give my belief support and make it irrefutable at that. If the power of the creation was to be unlimited or what I could imagine, then the proof was going to have be equally as convincing as the wall.

Yes Picasso had the wall. He painted it. Him being Spanish, he painted bulls and bull fighting. Then there was Pamplona and the Running of the Bulls, where the whole thing is reversed and a crowd is in the ring with the bulls. But if I was Picasso I could be nobody but Picasso, even if it is one of the greatest acting roles in history. It is a staring role and by definition a typecast. Never did care for the stars, because John Wayne was always John Wayne. Then again Picasso would have no trouble in assessing the value of my work. It would be worth what he said it was. But there are lots of others out there, the character actors, the every-bodies; would they believe? I had been around long enough to know, and been in enough museums to realize, that most people wouldn't have a clue to the value of most art, without the context of a museum or the brand name to legitimize it.

It was performance actually. I liked the light in this Winfield place most. It had a real variety throughout the day and until sunset, something I learned to appreciate in Greece, and the fog to give some grit to it all besides.

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