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
If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.
The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
I have had no true friends, only lovers.
I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
The path to youth takes a lifetime.
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.