Effort Quote by Alex Katz

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

— Willem de Kooning

I want painting to be difficult to do.

— Richard Diebenkorn

I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

The vast amount of time it takes to make my paintings is very challenging. I have so many exciting ideas I would love to…

— Mark Ryden

I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile…

— Claude Monet

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do.

— Rolf Harris

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

— Rod Taylor

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

— William Hazlitt

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

— John Marin

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

— Andy Warhol

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be…

— Ali Banisadr

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have…

— John Hurt