Every child is an artist. Or so said Pablo Picasso. And let's face it, he should know. He painted four of the top 10 most expensive paintings ever sold at auction, including Garcon a la pipe, or Boy with a Pipe, which went for an astonishing 58m earlier this year.
Although nowadays Garcon a la Benson & Hedges might be a more familiar image than teenagers going around puffing on clay pipes, Picasso still makes sense. Every child really is an artist. Just ask any youth worker.
In fact, Picasso would have been very impressed with most youth workers' attitude towards art. And, in particular, their dogged insistence that almost anything creative produced by a young person is a mini-masterpiece worthy of the Tate Modern.
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