50 years after his death, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) continues to be a benchmark, a synonym for Art. Eugenio d'Ors ended his essay on Goya with these words: "Any matter seems clear, until the day it is given a little study." This is probably what happens here when we delve into these pages to hear the artist speak in the first person through his own friends, gallery owners, art critics, journalists on duty who never satisfied their need to learn more about the multifaceted universe of this man who encompassed and shook the entire culture of the twentieth century.