Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

She became his lover and then his second wife in 1961. In the summer of 1918 Picasso married Olga Khokhlova a ballerina with Sergei Diaghilev’s troupe for whom Picasso was designing a ballet Erik Satie's Parade in Rome; and they spent their honeymoon near Biarritz in the villa of the glamorous Chilean art patron Eugenia Errázuriz. Picasso took the opportunity to make several drawings of the composer.

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Picasso (Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter sculptor printmaker ceramicist and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune making him one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement the invention of constructed sculpture the co-invention of collage and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.