When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
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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.
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
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