... his room mate de Soto, who he often drew pictures of. Picasso started having one of his best periods ever. One of his most famous paintings of this period was La Vie. This painting contains a couple crouching in a far corner holding each other, a loving mother with her baby, a couple embracing love, and a lonely man who is all by himself. This was ... another painting about his friend Casagemas. Picasso's only response about the painting was: "I was not the one who gave it that title, 'La Vie.' I certainly had no intention of painting symbols; I just painted the images that rose before ...

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