Pablo Picasso Time Quotations

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.

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

It takes a long time to become young.

It took me a lifetime.

Youth has no age.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

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

It takes a long time to grow young.

I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child