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
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.
I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
I can explain the picture to you, and you will understand my explanation, but you will not understand the picture.
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
One starts to get young at sixty, and then it's too late
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.
When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately.
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.
My work is like a diary. To understand it, you have to see how it mirrors life.