Alas Quote by Camille Pissarro

Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure…

— Robert A. Lovett

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even…

— David Milne

You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.

— Heidi Roizen

With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a…

— Andrew Wyeth

It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique…

— Walter J. Phillips

Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

— Gertrude Stein

How difficult it is to be simple.

— Irving Stone

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

— Miyamoto Musashi

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

— Alan Watts

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

— Eugene Ormandy

It was never easy, but I always tried my best and kept complaints out of my heart by holding tightly onto the hope that…

— Ger Duany