“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