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 we can dream can be real.
Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
Don't waste your youth growing up.
Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.
The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
In art, practice always comes before theory.
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
Why assume that to look is to see?
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.