Complexity Quote by Chai Lu

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

— Jasper Johns

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

— Yuri Lotman

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

— Edgar Degas

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

— Edgar Degas

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art,…

— Honore de Balzac

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

— L. Ron Hubbard

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

— Thomas Eakins

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

— Jenova Chen

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

— Joe Bradley