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
One starts to get young at sixty, and then it's too late
It takes a long time to grow young.
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 should like to live like a poor man, with a great deal of money
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
My mother said to me, ''If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.'' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. --Pablo Picasso Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.