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
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
There's nothing more difficult than a line.
What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.
Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. 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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...