Myths that evolve and are sometimes even orchestrated by the artists themselves, can be as much a part of their famosity, as the quality of their work. Of course it is also true, that when an artist's efforts are admired, the life he leads is perceived as enviable, desirable, and mysterious...
myth-making material.

"Around this man, forced for decades to be a kind of living museum, newspapers fabricated a series of Picasso images to satisfy the unconscious myth mania of the public.
The naive liked the romantic image of the young Spaniard who in his bitter Paris years begged a bowl of soup for himself and his friends and who stayed up at night for hours in front of an easel lit by the fire of a kerosene lamp, an image that reversed itself miraculously when the pauper became a millionaire, a castle owner, a King Midas who transformed everything that he touched with his brush into gold" (64)
(Domenico Porzio - The Joy of Living and Creating)