half century reassessment

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very important mustache talk

inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture

Pablo Picasso's [1881-1973] collaboration with Georges Braque [1882-1963] where paintings became not representations of things but things in themselves ended by the latter's head wound sustained as a WWI reservist - the Spaniard said he never saw his French friend again.

cubist period

"By the age of 60 a man has learned everything there is to know about life, but by then it's too late."

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

- Pablo Picasso

Image source here.

Q: What do your paintings mean?

A: Did you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway. 

"It takes a long time to become young."
- Picasso

Painting Guernica

"I've spent my whole life learning how to draw like a child."
- Picasso

theory of art

"Great artists take incredible leaps and take big chances. Picasso did it. Dylan."
- Museum Curator

"When critics get together they talk about aesthetics. When artists get together they talk about turpentine."
- Attributed to Picasso 

"[Picasso] turned groceries into masterpieces."

"Every child is born an artist; the problem is when they grow up."
- Picasso

"He was forty years older than me, but he exuded life."
- Françoise Gilot who married Picasso when she was twenty-two and he was sixty-two

“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.”

- Pablo Picasso

dead or alive

"The only artists I've known are dead."
- Glenn Ligon's mother reflecting on the death of Picasso in 1973

"All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as you grow up."
- Pablo Picasso

Picasso

A Met interview here.

his father was an art instructor

Pablo Picasso, The Old Fisherman (Salmerón), 1895


"At fifteen Picasso could draw as an old master and he spent the rest of his life trying to draw like a five year old."

going Dutch

Lucas Cranach the Elder's 1526 David and Bathsheba sold recently for nearly €5.3m

Pablo Picasso's 1949 David and Bathsheba