He was born on 31 December 1928 in Vinosady. From 1945 to 1950 he studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Bratislava (ceramics department, Prof. T. Lugs). From 1950 to 1955 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, in the figurative sculpture department under Prof. J. Kostka. In 1957 he was a co-founder of the Mikuláš Galanda Group and regularly participated in its exhibitions. From 1955, with the exception of the 1970s, he exhibited regularly both at home and abroad.

In his sculptural work he devoted himself almost exclusively to the human figure; the central motif of his work became the woman in countless forms across a wide thematic and expressive range — mother, lover, symbol — the motif of the woman and the girl as an ideal of beauty in the classical sense. Work on the theme of female figures fully developed in the early 1960s and expanded in its range: the first full-figure sculptures of women began to emerge (seated, standing, reclining). Tóth drew inspiration from the works of H. Moore, as well as from archaic schematised figures from ancient cultures. The majority of his works can be placed in the category of chamber sculpture with intimate subject matter, belonging to the realm of the lyrically conceived sculpture. The portrait was soon joined by a simplified, geometrising form in the spirit of the work of the members of the Mikuláš Galanda Group. The formal vocabulary of his artistic expression is based on soft contour lines, firm, summary and rounded forms of sensitively modelled mass. It reveals a sense for statics, an interest in the sensitive treatment of the surface texture of the work, with an emphasis on the meaningful role of light in the final completion of its statement. The artist undertook several trips abroad and held solo exhibitions in Trnava, Bratislava, Trenčín and Pezinok. He created several monumental-decorative works for the spas in Piešťany, Dudince, Lúčky and others. In the last two decades of his career he arrived at an expressive deformation based on emotional impact.

He died on 13 September 1988 in Tarragona, Spain.

A valuable source of information is the extensive and richly produced monograph Pavol Tóth by Zita Kostrová. It introduces the reader to the artistic techniques used by P. Tóth in his work — painting, drawing, graphics and sculpture. Through his work, P. Tóth contributed to the broadening of the forms of figurative sculpture and to the image of modern humanity of his time.

In Prievidza, his bust of Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav can be found on Sama Chalupku Street.