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
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
Why assume that to look is to see?
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects