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…"

Quote of the day by Pablo Picasso (Image: Wikipedia) 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 withinChildren 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.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 draw like them"What the quote actually meansPicasso is not claiming children's drawings are technically superior to a trained artis...