Picasso

Cuentan que durante la II Guerra Mundial, cuando Picasso se instaló en un granero de la calle de los Agustinos, en París, lo visitó el alemán Otto Abetz, embajador de Hitler. El nazi Otto observó en una pared una foto que reproducía el Guernica y con ignorancia le preguntó a Don Pablo:

“¿Quién hizo esto? ¿Fue usted?”; y Picasso, le contestó:

“No, ustedes lo hicieron”.



PICASSO was relaxing on a beach in the south of France when he was accosted by a small boy clutching a blank sheet of paper. The child had evidently been dispatched by his parents to solicit an autographed drawing. After a moment's hesitation, Picasso tore up the paper and drew a few designs on the boy's back instead. He signed his name with a flourish and sent the child back to his parents. Relating the incident at a later date, Picasso remarked thoughtfully,

"I wonder if they'll ever wash him again?"

DURING World War II Picasso suffered some harassment from the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Paris. An inquisitive German officer, coming into his apartment, noticed a photograph of Guernica lying on a table. "Did you do that?" he asked Picasso.

"No, you did," said Picasso.