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
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
A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays...
I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.
If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.
Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you
Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.