“Yet Cubism and Modern art weren’t either scientific or intellectual; they were visual and came from the eye and mind of one of the greatest geniuses in art history”. Pablo Picasso, born in Spain, was a child prodigy who was recognized as such by his art-teacher father, who ably led him along. The small Museo de Picasso in Barcelona is devoted primarily to his early works, which include strikingly realistic renderings of casts of ancient sculpture.
He was a rebel from the start and, as a teenager, began to frequent the Barcelona cafes where intellectuals gathered. He soon went to Paris, the capital of art, and soaked up the works of Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Toulouse-Lautrec, whose sketchy style impressed him greatly. Then it was back to Spain, a return to France, and again back to Spain – all in the years 1899 to 1904. His art, paintings and quotes are as follows…..

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

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

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

Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?
Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso

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.
Pablo Picasso

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Pablo Picasso

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

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Disciples be damned. It’s not interesting. It’s only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso

Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso

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

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.
Pablo Picasso