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

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

It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Purpose

Beauty?.. To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Beauty

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

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

Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Work

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

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Youth

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: God

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Children, Art, Inner-child

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Action

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Art

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

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

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

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
—Pablo Picasso

It is personality with a penny’s worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Genius

Give me a museum, and I’ll fill it.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Give, Art

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Art

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Childhood, Youth

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Love, Life

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Talent

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite—that particular peach is but a detail.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Facts

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Genius

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Ideas

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
—Pablo Picasso
Topics: Success

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

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