Quote of Pablo Picasso - What might be taken for a...

Biography - Pablo Picasso:

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

Quote

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.”
Pablo Picasso

Quotes about childhood:

Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

childhood

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

The first sigh of childhood is for liberty.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

We are of our childhood as we are from a country.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

childhood

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud

childhood

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.”
Desiderius Erasmus

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Quotes for: genius:

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

genius

My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.”
Mark Twain

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
Eugene Delacroix

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
Albert Einstein

genius

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”
Charlie Chaplin

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

genius

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Pablo Picasso also said...

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

artist

I do not seek, I find.”
Pablo Picasso

Youth has no age.”
Pablo Picasso

youth

It takes a long time to become young.”
Pablo Picasso

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
Pablo Picasso

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

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