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“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

Quote attributed to Picasso in TIME, October 4, 1976, Modern Living: Ozmosis in Central Park http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/07/child-art/ http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918412,00.html <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

Quoted in: Peter Erskine, ‎Rick Mattingly (1998), Drum Perspective, p. 73.
Alternative forms:
"At eight, I was Raphael", he used to say. "It took me a whole lifetime to paint like a child"
From Picasso, my grandfather, Marina Picasso (2001).
Attributed from posthumous publications

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”

“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.”

Quoted in: Briton Hadden, ‎Henry Robinson Luce (1969), Time, Vol. 93. p. 66.
1960s

“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

As quoted in Life with Picasso, by François Gilot, 1964, p. 60
1940s

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

Attributed in Civilization's Quotations : Life's Ideal (2002) by Richard Alan Krieger, p. 132, and many places on the internet, this was actually stated by Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Anthon van Rappard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthon_van_Rappard (18 August 1885) http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let528/letter.html, also rendered "I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it." <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”

“You don't make art, you find it”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

Quoted in: LIFE http://books.google.com/books?id=9EgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9, Vol. 57, nr. 11 (11 September 1964). p. 9. <br class="br">1960s

“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!”

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”

“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”

“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”

Attributed by Banksy on Instagram (October 6, 2018): "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge" - Picasso https://www.instagram.com/p/BomXijJhArX/?hl=en&taken-by=banksy. This was actually written by anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin in his essay "Reaction in Germany," in 1842.<br><br>Source: Moore, John (2004). I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite!: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition. Brooklyn NY: Autonomedia. p. 87.<br><br>Source: Lehning, Arthur, ed. (1973). Mikhail Bakunin: Selected Writings. London: Cape. p. 58. <br class="br">Misattributed

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

Compare: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." T. S. Eliot, in Philip Massinger, in The Sacred Wood (1920)
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