Dialog with Picasso

You're great.

No, you're great.

No, I'm not great, you're great.

Great that you see this. Great that you see you're great; you're great for seeing this, your own greatness, and I'm great for seeing.

That makes you great as well.

I didn't mean that I am great on my own, that's not what I mean at all. I'm great only for seeing your greatness, and part of your greatness is in providing me the opportunity to see it. Your greatness is so great, a greatness created from having me, who is not great, see greatness as exemplified by you. Your greatness makes mine seem less than great, though it is this lessness, this less than being great, that lets me see you as great as you are, as the greatest in the whole panoply of greatness.