I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.
Pablo Picasso, Mariel Jardines, Herschel Browning Chipp, Alan Wofsy (1997). “Picasso's paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculpture: a comprehensive illustrated catalogue, 1885-1973. Spanish Civil War, 1937-1939”