Quote of the day by Pablo Picasso: "When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to…" - a profound lesson on creativity, simplicity and rediscovering the fearless artist within
Children draw without hesitation, painting exactly what they imagine rather than what anyone expects of them. Pablo Picasso pointed at that exact quality with real admiration. "When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael," he said, "but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them." A popular shortened version of this line, "it took me my whole life to learn to draw like a child," circulates far more widely, but it leaves out the actual comparison that gives the thought its real bite, the specific gap between a technique that took years to master and a freedom that came naturally to children without any training at all. His later Cubist experiments, often dismissed as childlike scribbles by critics of his time, ultimately proved this very point, transforming apparent simplicity into some of the most revolutionary and enduring artistic breakthroughs of the twentieth century.
-copy-29e15046.jpeg?w=600)
