Artist Quote by Martin Gayford

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

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

Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it.…

— Walter J. Phillips

“Most artists can't draw.”

— Roy Simmons

“He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the…

— John Fowles

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

— Romare Bearden

“you draw" (the painter)”

— Sarah Dunant

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

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art,…

— Honore de Balzac

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

— John French Sloan

“I think the general’s job is harder than the painter’s; canvas doesn’t fight back, after all.”

— Django Wexler

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as…

— Leonardo da Vinci