Everything you can imagine is real.
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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.

Wikipedia

Born	Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso 25 October 1881 Málaga, Spain
Died	8 April 1973 (aged 91) Mougins, France
Resting place	Château of Vauvenargues
Nationality	Spanish
Education	José Ruiz y Blasco (father), Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Known for	Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing
Notable work	Les Demoiselles d’Avignon(1907) Guernica (1937) The Weeping Woman (1937)
Movement	Cubism, Surrealism
Spouse(s)	Olga Khokhlova (1918–55) Jacqueline Roque (1961–73)

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Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.

Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period.

Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.

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Guernica:

Videos

Modern Masters – Pablo Picasso

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★ Pablo Picasso Complete Documentary – The ★ Art Story

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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon:

Quotes

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

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Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

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The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

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It takes a very long time to become young.

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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

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What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!

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There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

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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.

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

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: