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Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)

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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.

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Pen Names: Pau de Gósol

Alternative Names: Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso • Pablo Ruiz • Pablo Ruys Picasso • Pablo Ruiz Picasso • Pablo Ruys • Picasso • Pablo Ruiz y Picasso • Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco Picasso • Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco Picasso • P. Picasso • Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso • Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad María de los Remedios Alarcón y Herrera Ruiz Picasso • Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad María de los Remedios Alarcón y Herrera Ruiz Picasso

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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

I was a painter and became Picasso.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. Picasso

Les lettres françaises (1943-03-24).

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.

Les gloires, les trompettes, les palmes... et les bas-reliefs,... tout cela fait un monument.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

If they took away all my paints, I'd use pastels, if they took away my pastels, I'd use crayons, if they took away my crayons, I'd use a pencil. If they put me in a cell, and stripped me of everything, I'd spit on my finger and draw on the wall.

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.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.