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Inspirational Quotes by Pablo Picasso (Spanish Painter)

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881–1973,) fully Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso, also called (before 1901) Pablo Ruiz or Pablo Ruiz Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. A resident in France from 1904, his prodigious creativity and technical versatility made him the foremost figure in avant-garde art in the first half of the 20th century. He experimented with a wide range of styles and themes in his long career, most notably inspiring ‘Cubism.’

Born in Málaga, Picasso grew up in Barcelona. He showed artistic talent at an early age. In the early 1900s, he moved between France and Spain before settling in Paris in 1904. He experimented with many styles and produced his own original ones, reflected in his ‘Blue’ and ‘Rose’ periods. The paintings of Blue Period (1901–04) used melancholic blue shades to represent social outsiders. During his Rose Period (1905–06,) he represented circus performers and acrobats in hues of pink and gray. His rejection of naturalism and his focus on the analysis and reduction of form evolved into cubism (1908–14,) embodied in such paintings as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907.)

In the 1920s and 1930s, Picasso adopted a neoclassical figurative style and evolved into a semi-surrealist painter. He portrayed more violent and morbid works in paintings such as The Three Dancers (1935.) His celebrated Guernica (1937) was inspired by the destruction of the Basque village by German bombers at the request of General Franco’s nationalist government.

Picasso is equally renowned for his sculpture. He pioneered the use of assembled instead of modeled or carved materials. The most famous example is his Head of a Bull, Metamorphosis (1943,) which comprises a bicycle saddle and handlebars.

Picasso’s eccentric and expansive lifestyle, his wealth and womanizing, and his scrupulously documented artistic technique are well known. For the popular French documentary Le Mystère Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso; 1956,) he painted with specially formulated inks and destroyed most of those paintings with the intention that they exist only on film.

Picasso inspired numerous books, including Alfred H. Barr, Jr.’s Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art (1946) and Roland Penrose’s Portrait of Picasso (1957) and Picasso: His Life and Work (1958.) A comprehensive survey of his work is Christian Zervos’s Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres (21 vols., 1942–69.)

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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso

One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful?. One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Beauty

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Wealth, Money

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superflous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: The Artist

You know, it’s just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are—two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs—and the best—he’ll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.
Pablo Picasso

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

The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Creativity, Vision

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Art

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few … if you are lucky.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Friendship

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Art, Artists, Arts, Nature

Drink to me.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Famous Last Words

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Art

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Imitation

We don’t grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Arts, Lies, Art, Artists

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Pablo Picasso

Picasso’s mother held great ambitions for him when he was a child. She instructed him: If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as Pope”. Instead,” Picasso quipped, “I became a painter and became a Picasso”.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Great, The Artist, Pain, General

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Inspiration, The Artist

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Enthusiasm

I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Success & Failure, Achievement

I’m a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Art

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Little Things, Things

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Photography

I do not seek. I find.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Discovery, Creativity

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

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.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Tyranny, Individuality

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Artists, Arts, Art

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Sympathy

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
Topics: Art

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