Cameras Quote by Theodore Robinson

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

— Edgar Degas

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

— Charles Sheeler

I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home empty-handed, with…

— Martine Franck

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

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 will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process.…

— Stephen Shore