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
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.