Art Quote by Domenico Gnoli

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

— Paul Cezanne

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try…

— Gerhard Richter

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

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I…

— Tom Wesselmann

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

— Edgar Degas

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

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

— Luc Tuymans

Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.

— William McGregor Paxton

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I…

— Black Francis

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

— Jonathan Lethem

I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you…

— Peter Doig