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
I would like to live like a poor person with a lot of money.
We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
I paint what I think, not what I see.
Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
All Children are Artists
I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.