Pablo Ruiz y Picasso ( 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), 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, Pablo 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.
Read below some inspiring Quotes of Pablo Picasso.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age…
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
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 be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
It takes a very long time to become young.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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.
Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it…myself included.
