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
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Good designers copy; great designers steal.
I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.