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 the end there is only Matisse.
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us...
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.
If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.
This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.
If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.