Every child is an artist.

The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Picasso

 Picasso's Maya

the idea that school children should not be taught music and dance at school-but can get these immortal gifts at home is ludicrous.

“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. 

And what do we teach our children? 

We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. 

When will we also teach them what they are? 

We should say to each of them: 

Do you know what you are? 

You are a marvel. 

You are unique. 

In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. 

Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. 

You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. 

You have the capacity for anything. 

Yes, you are a marvel. 

And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? 

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.” Picasso

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. 
Where it is chaste, it is not art. Picasso



discussing on the National Endowment for the Arts starting at 34 minutes












Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.  Picasso

Links

http://www.arts.gov/artworks/

http://www.arts.gov/

http://www.americansforthearts.org/information_services/arts_education_community/resource_center_017.asp

http://www.anthonycrowley.com/picassos_children

http://www.texasgopvote.com/restore-families/it-time-defund-national-endowment-arts-obama-2012-art-part-ii-action-required-002449

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Picasso
Instead of efforts to protect and defend- there are those who insist on censure  and defund. 
They can not see the sun.





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