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
I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
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.
Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.
I paint what I think, not what I see.
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.
An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.