Art Quote by Chuck Close

Ease is something that I think many admire in other people, in sports or whatever it may be.

— Peter Riegert

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

— William Cowper

Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try…

— Nelly

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

— Eugene Delacroix

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call…

— Michelle Shocked

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.

— Charles Fleischer

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

— Charles Bukowski

For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

— Rita Mae Brown

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

— Andrew Solomon

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

— Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

— Charles Bukowski