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1881–1973 France
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish artist who lived and worked in Paris for many years. Around 1906–1908 together with Georges Braque Picasso initiated cubism, based on a strong inspiration of Paul Cézanne's work.
Also known as: Picasso, Picasso, Pablo
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It takes a very long time to become young.
For a long time I limited myself to one color — as a form of discipline.
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
Even the signature of Kodra is a work of art.
When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.
after the death of Matisse (1954)
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
For me, there are only two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.
For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun.
Sergei Eisenstein (1957)
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
Abstract art is only painting. What about drama?
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defence against the enemy.
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
I was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.
The glories, trumpets, palms... and low reliefs,... all that makes a monument.
Picasso (1952)
It's like God's. 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.
Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.
Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
Picasso Speaks (1923)
You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.
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