Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth25 October 1881
CityMalaga, Spain
CountrySpain
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?
Art is a leap into the dark.
The more technique there is, the less there is
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
Everything we can dream can be real.
Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
Don't waste your youth growing up.
Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
In art, practice always comes before theory.
The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.