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
I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child
For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
I draw like other people bite their nails.
Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
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.