Pablo Picasso

"I knew Ehrenburg for more than fifty years. I saw how he transformed himself from a down-and-out poet into an eloquent journalist, just as Rubenstein tells us. It's also true that Ehrenburg encouraged me to join the Struggle for Peace and participate in the Soviet peace campaign after World War II. Most of all, though, I'm grateful to Josh Rubenstein for recalling how Ehrenburg organized the first exhibit of my work in the Soviet Union - that was in 1956. Only Ehrenburg could have pulled it off."