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
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
I have had no true friends, only lovers.
I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
The path to youth takes a lifetime.
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
Paradise is to love many things with a passion.
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.
If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.