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
I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child
I don't paint things the way I see them, but the way I think them.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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 wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso,
You can't run a business without taking risks.
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.