Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking…

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain…

— Robert Henri

The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked -…

— Glenn Greenwald

It is easy to take good pictures, difficult to take very good pictures, and almost impossible to take great pictures.

— Constantine Manos

Everything's difficult if we're thinking too much of everything.

— Riza Tumulak

Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible

— Constantine Manos

“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”

— Wu Cheng'en

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

— John Cage

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever…

— Jacques Lipchitz

When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and…

— Joaquin Sorolla

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way…

— Pablo Picasso

Where beauty ends is where the artist begins

— Gene Youngblood

A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what…

— Eric Maisel

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

— Edward Steichen

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

— Henri Matisse

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

— Henri Matisse