Education Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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

— Edgar Degas

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

— Jacques Barzun

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

— Jackson Pollock

You learn more when it's hard than when it's easy.

— Marcos Alonso

It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

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

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

— Romare Bearden

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

— Nathanael Emmons

Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.

— Chai Lu