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In the end, the Céret music, while separated from mainstream culture, found an outlet from is sheltered community into the rest of the world through Picasso’s Cubist art. The steady rhythm of the sardana served as the model for Picasso’s choice of geometric shapes to provide the defining characteristic of and backbone for his Cubist paintings. With this structure in place, the Céret music’s freedom and energy gave Picasso a goal to achieve with his own art, and we witnessed Picasso’s progression as he incorporated these elements into his guitar paintings. Picasso once told the Catalan composer Déodat de Séverac, “My dear fellow, I know nothing about [music], and I understand music too little to follow it without getting it wrong� (Qtd. Buettner 118). Picasso may indeed have had “little� knowledge in music, but perhaps it was this lack of expertise that allowed Picasso to undergo a detailed exploration of music, adopting different aspects along the way into his Cubist art – therefore shaping Cubism an revolutionizing the art world.