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
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
~ Pablo Picasso
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
~ Pablo Picasso
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
~ Pablo Picasso
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
~ Pablo Picasso
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
~ Pablo Picasso
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
~ Pablo Picasso
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
~ Pablo Picasso
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
~ Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
~ Pablo Picasso
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
~ 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
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
~ Pablo Picasso
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
~ Pablo Picasso
Everything you can imagine is real.
~ Pablo Picasso
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
~ Pablo Picasso
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.
~ 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 the elimination of the unnecessary.
~ Pablo Picasso
Action is the foundational key to all success.
~ 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
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
~ Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
~ Pablo Picasso
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
~ Pablo Picasso
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
~ Pablo Picasso
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
~ Pablo Picasso
Irish satirist. cleric, political pamphleteer.
He is best known for Gulliver's Travels, an account of Lemuel Gulliver's fanciful voyages. Jonathan Swift also published
numerous political pamphlets. The most sensational of these short works, "A Modest Proposal," is generally considered to be
the most famous satirical essay in the English language.
He became a staunch supporter of the Protestant Church and worked hard to publicise the plight of his fellow Irishmen, who
were being treated despicably by the English at the time.
Swift did not believe much in the new theoretical science and rational philosophy. He did not think that it would contribute
to the moral improvement of people. On the contrary, he saw it as a very dangerous display of pride and confidence in the powers of human reasoning.
This undermined what he believed was the most important point of traditional Christian faith, the belief that human beings
are fundamentally flawed creatures.
(1667-1745)
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
