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Quote of Pablo Picasso - Every child is an artist. The...


Biography - Pablo Picasso:

Spanish painter and sculptor.
Born: 1881 - Died: 1973
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Spain
Spain

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Dans chaque enfant il y a un artiste. Le problème est de savoir comment rester un artiste en grandissant.

German
Jedes Kind ist ein Künstler. Das Problem ist nur, wie man ein Künstler bleibt, wenn man größer wird.




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All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

In fact, every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius to a certain extent a child.

I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown men who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it.




Quotes for: artist


Quotes

Quotes for: artist


Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.





The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.





Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.





Great artists have no country.





Every human being should be an artist. Everything can become beautiful art.
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Quotes

Quotes for: child


We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.





Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.





Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.











Quotes

Quotes for: problem


Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.





As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.





Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.





The solution to the problem, which you see in life, lies in living in a way that makes the problems disappear.





Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.





Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.











Quotes

Pablo Picasso also said...




I do not seek, I find.





Youth has no age.





It takes a long time to become young.





Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.





A picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.





I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.












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