Pablo Picasso - How The Starving Boy Became a Successful Genius of the Art World

Did you know that the famous painter Pablo Picasso was so poor and desperate to survive. He had to burn many of his paintings just to stay warm in the winter Pablo Picasso is probably the most well-known painter of the 20th century. However his road to becoming one of the most dominant and influential artists of all time was not easy.

Picasso showed incredible talent and passion for art from a very early age. In fact his first word as a baby was pencil as a teenager Picasso showed great skill in painting, so his father began coaching him and at only 13 Pablo Picasso began his career as a painter. When Picasso was 19 years old he moved to Paris, but unfortunately he had to face severe poverty called desperation and hardship. In Paris, Picasso met his friend the poet and journalist max Jacob, who soon became his roommate. The poet slept at night and worked during the day, while Picasso worked at night and slept during the day. Due to extreme poverty he found it very difficult to make ends meet, often not having enough money for food or art supplies. Faced with a harsh European winter, he had no other choice but to keep himself warm or die from cold, so unfortunately Picasso was forced to do the unthinkable. He had to burn many of the paintings, just to stay warm in cold as there was no other way to survive the winter. Those hardships finally paid off, because Pablo Picasso became one of the most dominant and influential artists of all time.

He was a man who believed even from a young age that he was destined to become famous and he backed his dreams with an enormous drive and incredible work ethic. It is believed that during his lifetime, he have made more than 50 000 artworks. Even though Picasso had a lot of admirable traits. We can all learn from like his raw determination, his willingness to take risks and his incredible work ethic. There are also a lot of sources that say that Picasso was not a very good person. He was someone i would never want to meet he was self-absorbed selfish competitive manipulator. He was a jerk especially with the women. He was with Picasso was a flawed human being to say the least, but i think we can all learn something even from the jerks in our lives, your boss a rude customer a toxic friend a karen every jerk.

You can think of can teach you a lesson and not just the obvious one like how not to behave these are the ones, who ruthlessly push you who say things and sadly force you like it or not to eventually stand up for yourself and realize how powerful you can be. They make you become better at recognizing and removing toxic people from your life. Today is the day, when you truly decide what kind of person you're going to be. If you're wondering if taking risks and living your life by your own rules is good for you. I want you to imagine something, imagine you're standing before a tombstone and then that tombstone is written here lies someone who never stood up for anything never spoke up always scared what people think of them never unsated anyone. They were so afraid of trying something new so they stayed safe in their comfort zone. They felt smaller and smaller every day and never truly realized, how valuable and important they are here lies someone who waited years to be ready. But it was just never the right time here lies someone, who played by the rules their whole life and never ever truly believed in themselves would you be content and happy.