At an exhibition of children's drawings:

When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.


Variant: "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." As quoted in: Read to The Times, 27 October 1956


When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.

When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.

When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.

When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.