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
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
You don't make art, you find it
Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
I do not seek. I find.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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?