Pablo Picasso — "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become…"

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.
Pablo Picasso — Pablo Picasso Modern · Cubism, modern art

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Attributed, often cited as an anecdote.

Date: c. 1950s

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