About Pablo Picasso:

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso 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 (1907), and Guernica (1937), 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.

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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Pablo Picasso

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Pablo Picasso

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist...

Pablo Picasso

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Pablo Picasso

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Pablo Picasso

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Pablo Picasso

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Pablo Picasso

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Pablo Picasso

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Pablo Picasso

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Pablo Picasso

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Pablo Picasso

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Pablo Picasso

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

Pablo Picasso

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Pablo Picasso

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Pablo Picasso

When I was a child, 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

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Pablo Picasso

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

Pablo Picasso

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Pablo Picasso

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Pablo Picasso

Author Bio

NamePablo Picasso
DescriptionSpanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
AliasesPablo Ruiz y Picasso
BornOctober 25, 1881
DiedApril 8, 1973
CountrySpain
ProfessionPainter; Sculptor; Graphic Designer; Printmaker; Choreographer; Ceramist; Affichiste
WorksGuernica; Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
AwardsLenin Peace Prize

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About Pablo Picasso:

Author Bio