My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Pablo PicassoRead
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Interpretation
Creativity is inherent in every child, but adulthood makes it challenging to maintain that artistic spirit.
Pablo Picasso's quote emphasizes the natural creativity and artistic expression found in children, suggesting that as we grow up, societal norms and expectations often stifle this innate ability. The challenge lies in preserving the imaginative and free-spirited mindset that fosters creativity even as we navigate the complexities of adult life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about nurturing creativity in children.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?
Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. Thereβs no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.
The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.
I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it on any given day or night. You just have to know where to look.
A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it's the death of magazines.
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