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
It takes a long time to grow young.
One starts to get young at sixty, and then it's too late
Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.
If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
Youth has no age.
I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso,
Art washes away the dust of everyday life.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.