In 1950 Picasso and Sabartés had a discussion about art. Picasso made a premonitory statment: "If one set out to copy Las Meninas in all good faith, let's say, when one got to a certain point and if the person doing the copying were me, I'd say: How about putting that a girl a litte more to the right or the left?. I'd try to do it my own way, forgetting Velázquez.