If you love art then, “Picasso” is going to speak a lot, modern art is a result of Picasso’s work and he stands by as one of the legendary figures to give birth to modern art. Pablo Picasso was a Spanish actor who was born on October 25, 1881. Picasso wasn’t just a painter of his time, he was an exceptional painter and his expertise didn’t just stop there. He was a sculptor, printmaker, stage designer, and ceramicist, due to his amazing skills and talent, he became an outstanding figure in all of these fields.

One of Pablo’s amazing feats was depicting realism and the surrounding culture through his art, and that is what he did. Picasso along with another legendary painter Georges Braque gave cubism birth. Cubism was a very unique and revolutionary art representing realism. Cubism was inspired due to tribal art and the circumstances of the early 20th century, Pablo wanted to make that scenery in his mind eternal and that is what he exactly did.

Pablo, being an incredible artist was very famous with the ladies, and sometimes his relationship was depicted through various mediums of art. Picasso’s immersion in art did not stop with cubism as he wanted to make something more inspirational and thus came into existence- Collage. Collage was a different kind of art in which Picasso merged several signs and used some metaphorical terms to give them a viable meaning.

Pablo Picasso’s Quotes About Art and Life

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

2. Youth has no age.

3. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

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

6. The artist is a receptacle for 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.

7. My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter and became Picasso.

8. Action is the foundational key to all success.

9. It takes a long time to become young.

10. Everything you can imagine is real.

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

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

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

14. Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

15. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

16. 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 the sun.

17. The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

18. Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

19. It takes a very long time to become young.

20. Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

21. I do not seek. I find.

22. An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate on it, it becomes transformed by thought.

23. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

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

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

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

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

28. 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.

29. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

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

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

32. If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

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

34. Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

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

36. There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.

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

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

39. Accidents, try to change them – it’s impossible. The accident reveals the man.

40. One must act in painting as in life, directly.

41. It takes a very long time to become young.

42. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous… I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

43. There are artists who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

44. This idea of art for art’s sake is a hoax.

45. One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite else. It is remarkable how little the ‘willing’ of the artist intervenes.

46.  A picture lives by its legend – not by anything else.

47.  The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

48. A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one’s thoughts change.

49. “People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age…”

50. “We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”

51. “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

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

53. “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”

54. “Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”

55. “There is only one way to see things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.”

56. “Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.”

57. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”

58. “We don’t grow older we grow riper.”

59. “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”

60. “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

61. “The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.”

The Life Of Pablo Picasso 

Picasso received training from his father who himself was an art teacher and a painter as well. Just at the age of 16, Pablo had already lost a liking to traditional art techniques and he desired to introduce something new. His quest began when he joined the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. That is when he came to know about his dislikeness of the traditional ways. 

He began to experiment with different styles of art. Most of his life was spent in Paris, which was a city to be in if you were an artist in the early 20th century. During his stay in Paris, he became friends with Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Braque, and Max Jacob. All of them were influential artists and writers of the time and they quickly became close friends. 

With time, Picasso’s style continued to evolve. He explored different grounds like still life, Portraits, mythological scenes, and landscapes. His work was bold and he always preferred to use innovative perspective. 

Picasso also excelled in other forms of art. He also produced sculptures, and collages, and even took an interest in theatrical productions. He was a versatile artist and he also led a very versatile personal life. He had multiple relationships and was married quite a few times. 

His most prominent and politically charged work was “Guernica”. He produced this in response to the Spanish Civil War when the town of Guernica suffered a horrifying bombing. To this day, his work is an iconic representation of war horrors. 

On April 8, 1973, Picasso passed away in the city of Mougins, France. He left behind a legacy of art that is celebrated still to this day. 

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