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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 chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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

It takes a long time to become young.

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

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

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

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

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

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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

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.

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

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

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

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

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

Youth has no age.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

Action is the foundational key to all success.

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

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.