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
If i wanted to become a monk, I would have ultimately become the Bishop.If i wanted to become a soldier, I would ultimately become the General, but because I wanted to become a painter, i became Picasso.
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.
I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money
I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso,
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.
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
My mother said to me, ''If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.'' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. --Pablo Picasso Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
All things considered, there is only Matisse.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.