Difficulties Quote by Alexander Graham Bell

“As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if…

— Colin Dexter

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none…

— Claude Debussy

“During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of…

— Colin Dexter

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He…

— Rainn Wilson

“He was the most astonishing contradiction of components I’d ever encountered. Shy yet fiercely communicative when putting an idea into your head. Vocally astringent…

— Chip Kidd

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

— Warren MacKenzie

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to…

— Jean Dubuffet

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

— Ernest Hemingway

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

— Paul Cezanne

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as…

— Max Ernst