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 never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?
To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
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
It takes a long time to grow young.
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.