This was the quote he sent to me the most.

While there are a bunch of other great Picasso quotes that I feel describe him to a tee, this one is the one he often sent me.

Yes it’s about imagination. If you have an idea you can make it a reality. If you put your mind to it the sky is the limit. Blah blah

But there’s a deeper meaning here, and the internet has very few deeper interpretations beyond the creativity and inspiring obvious meaning.

Before looking into the quote, i always interpreted this quote as my Dad saying to me “there’s tons of dimensions and there is an afterlife , don’t worry when i go, I’ll always be here, any reality or plain of existence you can imagine is real”

I found an article about imagination and reality:

“Imagination is commonly understood as the opposite of reality. We typically define the ‘real’ as what can be perceived by our senses and the ‘imaginary’ as what cannot be perceived by our senses. Dreams of both dormant and awaken state, ideals, fairytales, fiction of any sort… are all regarded by us as unreal products of our imagination. Thus a widely accepted definition of the ‘imaginary’ could well be: that which is not real”

“Whether you are an artist, an architect, or a kid playing with sand, your creating process essentially remains pretty much the same: you imagine something that does not exist but can potentially exist and, by using your hands guided by your brain, you strive to make it exist. “

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Why does something exist? The best of our answers would probably be because it is possible for it to exist. With the same logic, it could well be possible that nothing exists. But that would, after all, only be but another possibility. For every one of the infinite objective universes that may conceivably exist, there should be a corresponding number of universes that do not exist. But whether existent or nonexistent, all potential universes remain essentially the same: possibilities. 

To the best of our knowledge, we may assume that our universe existed way before we (as humans) appeared. Quantum physics suggests that for a particle to stabilize and acquire a fixed position within the space-time reality of our world, it needs to be observed. Arguably, the only power that can make observations is consciousness. Since not we humans, what observed the world that we found?”

Imagine