The Picasso Principle

I have always loved this story, and many (especially in the creative field) can identify with it:

The famous Pablo Picasso was at a party. A woman recognized him and approached the Master. She asked, “Will you create a sketch for me?”

Picasso agreed, and, as he pulled out his sketchpad, asked her for a subject.

“A bird in a tree will do,” she responded.

So Picasso spent about a five minutes doing what Picasso does on the sketchpad. Finished, he ripped the sketch off the pad, handed it to the woman and said, “That will be $10,000.”

The woman was floored. “Ten thousand dollars! Why, it only took you five minutes to draw that sketch!”

To which, Picasso replied, “No, madam. That sketch took me thirty years.”