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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.

Good artists copy, great artists steal. good & great

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. computers

It takes a long time to become young. age & time

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

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

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

Action is the foundational key to all success. success

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

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. art & truth

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

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

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

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

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. art & business

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. art

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

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

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

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

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. art & truth

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. life & love

Youth has no age. age

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

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

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

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. art

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense. good

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. art & intelligence