Pablo Picasso

What I think Pablo Picasso meant when he said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up," is that children can be more creative when they are older, and loose their sense of imagination as they grow up. Children tend to be able to think creatively, and use their imagination to come up with things to draw and just things to do. When people start to get older, they loose their artistic abilities and start thinking more literal because they start to realize what the world is like. Also, adults start to gain interest in other things that do not require your artistic ability.  As Pablo Picasso said, it is hard to keep your artistic ability when you grow up, but if you try to see things in a different way, and not how they literally are, then staying an artist would become easier.