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“It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.”

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Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.”

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Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.”

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Author:Leland Bell

“It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.”

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Author:Roger de Grey

“When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.”

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Author:Francois Cavanna

“When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“In the United States, if you ask teachers, "Are there children whom we should call 'gifted?'", many if not most will say 'No.' That's the politically correct answer. But if you then ask the teacher to rank order students in terms of how well they paint or write or dance, they'll have little difficulty in doing so.”

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Author:Howard Gardner

“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.”