THE VINTAGE MAN
The
Difference
Between a good artist
And a great one

Is:

The novice
Will often lay down his tool
or brush

Then pick up an invisible club
On the mind's table

And helplessly smash the easels and
Jade.

Whereas the vintage man
No longer hurts himself or anyone

And keeps on
Sculpting

Light.
-Hafiz (transl. by Daniel Ladinsky)

When visiting an exhibition of children's drawings, Piscasso remarked: "When I was their age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them."

(Penrose, Picasso: His Life and Work, 1958, p. 275)