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
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Good designers copy; great designers steal.
I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
I draw like other people bite their nails.