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

—Pablo Picasso

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About Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention...

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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

—Pablo Picasso

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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

—Pablo Picasso

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

—Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.

—Pablo Picasso

I do not seek. I find.

—Pablo Picasso

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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

—John J. Plomp

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Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Between Madison and Palmetto

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Too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.

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Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? She would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper

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