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
So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's work. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was.
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Action is the fundamental key to success.
They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
I am exhausted if I don't work.
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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.