My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.
Pablo PicassoAge only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
Pablo Picasso