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 you can imagine it...it is real
If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
If there is something to steal, I steal it.
I am exhausted if I don't work.
If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.
If you don't know what color to take, take black.....
If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.
If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies 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.
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.