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
The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was...
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
Art is lies that tell the truth.
Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.
If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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.
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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.