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Do You See Any Use of the Palette Knife?

Six-year-old boy: Look, Daddy — another Picasso!
Father: No, it isn’t. You know better than that.

–Modern Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Overheard by: Jim W.

  • Posted on January 29, 2007
  • Dads, Kids, The Met, Visual Art
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