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 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.
The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.