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
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.
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.