QuoteQuest“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Pablo Picasso
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
As quoted in Life with Picasso, by François Gilot, 1964, p. 60
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Picasso, Pablo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Pablo Picasso. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
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