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
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
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.
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.
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.
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.
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