"When I was a child, my mother said to…" — Pablo Picasso

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Quand j'étais enfant, ma mère me disait : "Si tu deviens soldat, tu seras général. Si tu deviens moine, tu finiras pape." Au lieu de cela, je suis devenu peintre et j'ai fini par être Picasso.

Pablo Picasso Spanish painter and sculptor

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