lol!
A lot of people try to say that he was just a morose guy, and that the statement about ‘selling-out’ was a product of that, depression, and unfulfilled idealism. I think he was telling the truth, whatever the cause.
Though I do like some of the ‘Blue Period’, I think he just couldn’t sustain or build upon the kind of work he did in ‘The Old Fisherman’; and decided to be fashionable, instead.
(Donning my asbestos suit, in case of Picasso-loving viewers ;-)
-JT