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
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
You don't make art, you find it
I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.