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
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
Art washes away the dust of everyday life.
If i wanted to become a monk, I would have ultimately become the Bishop.If i wanted to become a soldier, I would ultimately become the General, but because I wanted to become a painter, i became Picasso.
I don't paint things the way I see them, but the way I think them.
I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.
It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
I don't seek, I find.
We have learned nothing.
If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.
I don't develop; I am.