PP

I was going to talk about a street preacher here in London - his name is Philip Howard and he's from Liverpool!! But he's 52 so that's not me.

But then I would have to talk about religions and I might have to be critical of some of them.

And I don't like to complain!

So have a look at some footage of Pablo Picasso painting instead.

I have started thinking about Picasso lately. The first reason to think about something (for me) is when I don't understand it. Or when I don't like it. Though normally either of these two things would stop someone thinking about it. Funny, eh?

Well, look. Once I didn't like pizza at all. But I tried and I can eat it now. And Rachmaninoff - I once had no idea what was going on there, but I was patient and now I think it's interesting. Now, perhaps Rachmaninoff is more important than pizza, and I can't say how important that is. Perhaps neither is particularly important, I'm not saying at this stage. But what is important is to give myself a chance. Because I took an interest, I have added two things to my "like" list. I think it's better that way. The more things the better, because one day I might find something that really is important. Yes, a key fact! Something useful! But as long as I exclude things from my "possibles" list, I might miss it.

I still don't know about Picasso but I know he was good at drawing, that you can see enormous technical facility and poise in the way he paints (in the film above), and that he was prolific - he painted 13,500 pictures in his life! And made 300 sculptures and many more works!

Most prolific composers managed about 1,000 works each. That was really a lot, too. So these are interesting statistics to compare. I wonder what it means?

So I will continue to "include" Pablo Picasso until I know what he is up to. Please do the same! Include things!

Thanks!

(PS the film seems to be a commerial for Apple - I don't think Picasso made it for them though!)