Pablo Picasso on Drawing

It's been well over a half-century since Picasso's work took over the art world and helped change it forever. You would think in the time since then that abstract art has a whole would be more integrated into modern culture than it is now. But I think the opposite has happened. The separation from the audience and the art is even further now. Non-representational work especially, is still met with immediate dismissal half the time if not more, from otherwise seemingly intelligent people. This quote from Picasso illustrates this point:

"The critics say I draw like a child. When I was a child I drew like Raphael. It took me my whole life to draw like a child."

-Pablo Picasso