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Pablo Picasso Painter

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Spain
  • Born: Oct 25, 1881
  • Died: Apr 8, 1973

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. 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 the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and Guernica, a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.

Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

It takes a long time to become young.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Youth has no age.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.