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
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
It takes a long time to become young.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
Basically the French are all peasants.
When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.