Recalling a visit with Kafka to an exhibition of French painting, Janousch reports that, in answer to a comment he made on on Picasso's "rose coloured women with gigantic feet" which was to effect that Picasso was a "wilfull distortionist" Kafka replied: "I do not think so... He only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror, which goes 'fast', like a watch - sometimes".
(from The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head by Louis Begley)
