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The blue period was not a question of color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that. — Pablo Picasso

Interview · Magazine

The blue period was not a question of color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that.

Pablo Picasso
1956
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Picasso, Pablo. "Picasso." Interviewed by Alexander Liberman. Vogue, 1 Nov. 1956.

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