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
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.
We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).