Painting Difficulty Quotes

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.

Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

I want painting to be difficult to do.

It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.