“The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.”

— Pablo Picasso

Quote, attributed to Picasso in: Jean Cocteau (1932), Opium: The Diary of an Addict. p. 63
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Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stag… 1881–1973

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