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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cEverything you can imagine is real.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cArt is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cArt washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInspiration exists, but it has to find you working.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt takes a long time to become young.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not seek. I find.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe chief enemy of creativity is \u2018good\u2019 sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLearn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cComputers are useless. They can only give you answers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was a child, my mother said to me, \u2018If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.\u2019 Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mougins, France…Pablo Ruiz Picasso, 25 October 1881 \u2013 8 April 1973. \u201cEverything you can imagine is real.\u201d \u201cEvery child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.\u201d \u201cArt is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.\u201d \u201cArt washes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Pablo_picasso_1.jpg.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206156,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206152\/revisions\/206156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}