In my own view, there are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doi...ng things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself. As Picasso once remarked, "I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultiva...te these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »