It doesn’t fit – Ward Kimball

At the request of Walt Disney, animator Ward Kimball (1914-2002) worked two hundred and forty days on four minutes long scene from a cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". It was a scene where the dwarfs are cooking a lunch for Snow White and demolishing the kitchen in their colorful forest hut in the process.
 

At first, Disney said that the scene was divine, but then he thought it over and concluded:

“It doesn’t fit with the rest of the movie. Cut it out!”.

Ward Kimball’s two hundred and forty days of work and effort were slashed along.

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Bad student, good painter – Pablo Picasso

Teachers of the famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) were probably surprised by his great international success in art.

Pablo left school when he was ten because he couldn’t learn to read and write fluently. He had difficulties expressing himself and he also confused letter.

According to Pablo's mother, the famous painter learned to draw before he even learned to speak. One of the first words he uttered was "piz". In fact, little Pablo was asking of his mother “lapiz", which is a Spanish word for - a pencil.

He wanted to draw.

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