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
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.
I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
It takes a long time to become young.
Basically the French are all peasants.
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.