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
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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?
We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.
I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
It takes a long time to become young.
Basically the French are all peasants.
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
You can't run a without taking risks.
There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes