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
Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.
Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?
All things considered, there is only Matisse.
There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.
It took me a lifetime.
Everything you can imagine is real.
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.