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 does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.
Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.
People who read are people who dream.
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.
People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
There are more copies than originals among people.
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.