I am writing you immediately to inform you that as of this afternoon I am giving up painting, sculpture, engraving, and poetry to devote myself exclusively to singing. Your most devoted and humble servant who shakes your hand . . .
Picasso
The man to whom Picasso sent that note (in 1936) lost no sleep over it. Jaime Sabartés, devoted as a friend, and fairly humble as a secretary to Picasso, knew that Pablo didn't really mean it, though he may have thought he did. Picasso was apt to do things like that in one...
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