Picasso

I greatly enjoyed the first half. I was taken in my Gertrude Stein's authority and how some of the things sounded poetic, philosophical, interesting, and ‘in the know'. But then the writing seemed a little incoherent in places or oddly repetitive. Plus the choppy order of things and the emphasis on color and then the book being in greyscale.

Liked the quote near the end:
One must not forget that the earth seen from an airplane is more splendid than the earth seen from an automobile. The automobile is the end of progress on the earth, it goes quicker but essentially the landscapes seen from an automobile are the same as the landscapes seen from a carriage, a train, a waggon or in walking. But the earth seen from an airplane is something else. So the twentieth century is not the same as the nineteenth century and it is very interesting knowing that Picasso has never seen the earth from an airplane, that being of the twentieth century he inevitably knew that the earth is not the same as in the nineteenth century, he knew it, he made it, inevitably he made it different and what he made is a thing that now all the world can see.