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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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There is only one way to see things,
until someone shows us how to look at them
with different eyes

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

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

After Altamira, all is decadence - we have invented nothing

...this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

Many think that Cubism is an art of transition, an experiment which is to bring ulterior results. Those who think that way have not understood it. Cubism is not either a seed or a foetus, but an art dealing primarily with forms, and when a form is realized it is there to live its own life. A mineral substance, having geometric formation, is not made so for transitory purposes, it is to remain what it is and will always have its own form.

Setiap anak adalah seorang seniman. Masalahnya adalah bagaimana tetap menjadi seniman setelah kita dewasa.

All art is erotic.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

How can you expect a beholder to experience my picture as I experienced it? A picture comes to me a long time beforehand; who knows how long a time beforehand, I sensed, saw, and painted it and yet the next day even I do not understand what I have done. How can anyone penetrate my dreams, my instincts, my desires, my thought, which have taken a long time to fashion themselves and come to the surface, above all to grasp what I put there, perhaps involuntary.