Analysis Quote by Edgar Alwin Payne

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

— Edgar Degas

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at…

— Frank Stella

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

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

— Romare Bearden

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

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

— Ray Bradbury

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

— William Hazlitt

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be…

— Ali Banisadr

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

— Caio Fonseca

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh