A Spanish painter who is widely acknowledged to be the most important artist of the 20th century. He experimented with a wide
range of styles and themes in his long career, most notably inspiring 'Cubism'.
He is one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century.
Picasso superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive. For nearly 80 of his 91 years Picasso devoted himself to an
artistic production that contributed considerably to and paralleled the whole development of modern art.
(1881-1973)
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
~ Pablo Picasso
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.
~ Pablo Picasso
It takes a long time to become young.
~ Pablo Picasso
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
~ Pablo Picasso
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
~ Pablo Picasso
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.
~ Pablo Picasso
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
~ Pablo Picasso
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
~ Pablo Picasso
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such
painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his
own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
~ Pablo Picasso
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
~ Pablo Picasso
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it,
to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
~ Pablo Picasso
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
~ Pablo Picasso
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
~ Pablo Picasso
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
~ Pablo Picasso
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
~ Pablo Picasso
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
~ Pablo Picasso
Youth has no age.
~ Pablo Picasso
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
~ Pablo Picasso
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen
that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
~ Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~ Pablo Picasso
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
~ Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
~ Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
~ Pablo Picasso
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
~ Pablo Picasso
I do not seek. I find.
~ Pablo Picasso
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
~ Pablo Picasso
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
~ Pablo Picasso
One of the most celebrated artists of all time. The Italian Renaissance artist was a engineer, architect, master painter, sculptor, anatomist and inventor. Leonardo is considered to be a genius, creating some of the most famous paintings ever painted and known as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.
His notebooks were filled with drawings of many inventions that anticipated modern technology (flying machines, submarines and war machines), but were rarely constructed in his lifetime.
Among other inventions of the master, there were machines like a cog-wheeled device that has been interpreted as the first mechanical calculator, and a car powered by a spring mechanism.
Moreover, he made contributed to advance the studies of civil engineering, anatomy and
astronomy.
During his years in the Vatican, da Vinci planned an industrial use of solar power, by employing concave mirrors to heat water.
(1452 - 1519)
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
~ Buddha
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~ Confucius
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
~ Voltaire
