Painting Quote by Marc Chagall

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

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

— Alfred Sisley

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

— Romare Bearden

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat…

— Michelangelo

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

— Edgar Degas

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

“There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it with great…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Being able to draw well’, he goes on, ‘is the hardest thing – far harder than painting, as one can easily see from the…

— Martin Gayford

It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

— Robert Henri

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir…

— Robert Rauschenberg

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