When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.
Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.
Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.
Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all? The answer is, I think, that the deception is necessary if the goal of art is to be reached: only pictures that look as if they had been easily made can convincingly suggest that beauty is commonplace.
Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.
The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.
The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.
