'Picasso would wake late, about 10am, shrouded in pessimism. "Pablo would complain life was unbearable, why should he even get up, there was no purpose to anything," Gilot relates. "I would convince him things were not so bad after all, today he would paint something marvellous. Friends would call in, Pablo would win some argument, recharge his batteries, become king again. Finally around 1pm he'd start work in his studio, in a good mood." '
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