Color never came easily to Picasso and he reverted to a generally more Spanish palette.

Fernende Olivier – who was the first official mistress said about Picasso, "There was nothing especially attractive about him at first sight, though his oddly insistent expression compelled one’s attention. It would have been practically impossible to place him socially but his radiance, an inner fire one sensed in him gave him a sort of magnetism which I was unable to resist."

Picasso was a very possessive person. He maintained love and hate relationship with his old friends. When his friend George Braque visited Picasso in Midi, he strutted around often saying words, "You see Braque came to me first, he realizes I am more important than he is". Once he said that nobody had any real importance to him. As far as he was concerned other people are like those little grain of dust in the sunlight. It only took a push of the broom and out they went.

His mistress Francoise married Luc Simon a young painter whom she knew since her school days. While she was in Venice on her honeymoon, Picasso could not bear the thought of her being there with her young, tall and handsome husband and said, "When you love somebody, you can accept the idea of seeing her go off with some young fellow is very unconvincing." After seeing Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Limelight’ he had told Francoise, "I’d rather see a woman die, any day, then see her happy with someone else…. I am not interested in these so-called Christian act of nobility."