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“Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.”

Ends Language Painting Difficulty Noble Peculiar Vehicle Expressive Invaluable Technicalities

Book:The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin

Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin

“Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.”

Hard Dark White Half Painting Difficulty Tubes

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.”

Heart Moments Realizing Decision Painting Demand Weakness Difficulty Steel Finishing

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“My Paintings are Battles.”

Painting Battle Difficulty

Author:Georg Baselitz

“Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.”

Giving Mind Persons Art Done Facts Artist Emotion Talent Painting Essentials Essence Difficulty Pressure Profession Painter Characteristics Peace Of Mind Disappointed Under Pressure

Author:Titian

“Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.”

Art Eye Difficult Four Painting Art Is Difficulty Corners Backgrounds Difficult Things

Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated

Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated

“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?”

“What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?”

Thinking Difficult Brain Painting Difficulty Surgery Make You Think Brain Surgery

Author:Christopher Willard

“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.”

Trying Painting Difficulty Paint Finished Remove Ceilings Sleeves Chapel Sistine Chapel

Author:Francois Cavanna

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

Passion Pleasure Painting Difficulty Paint Ageless

Author:Francis Bacon

“Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.”

Thinking Men Ends Painting Hero Fame Difficulty Possession Dues Great Men Buying Publishing Underwear Basements Hacking Forts Unawareness

Book:Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren

Source: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren