Painting

To create good workers, education systems put a premium on compliancy and rote memorization of basic knowledge—excellent qualities in an industrial worker.

Picasso said,

'Computers are useless -- they only give you answers.'

It is generally agreed that a successful painting consists of the following:

• It is unified
• It has some variety created by areas of contrast and emphasis
• It is visually balanced
• It guides the viewer'...

Prodigies like Picasso, who created a masterpiece at age twenty, tend to be "conceptual" in the sense that they start with a clear idea of where they want to go, and then accomplish it. Picasso once said that he could hardly understand the importance given to the word 're...