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
I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
It takes a long time to grow young.
I don't paint things the way I see them, but the way I think them.
My work is like a diary. To understand it, you have to see how it mirrors life.
I can explain the picture to you, and you will understand my explanation, but you will not understand the picture.
Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
All things considered, there is only Matisse.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us...
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
It took me a lifetime.
If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.
Without great solitude no serious work is possible.