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
Pablo Picasso quotes about
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
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.
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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.
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
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?
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.