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“Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.”

Lasts Easy Lines Forever Painting Paper Drawing Bags Plastic Cheaper Plastic Bags

Author:Marlene Dumas

“The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.”

Doe Lying Easy Difficult Painting Elements Attraction Mediums Contradiction Fragile Ink Indecision Ceramics Difficult And Easy

Author:Isamu Noguchi

“It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.”

Done Easy Painting Projects Finishing Hanging Around Almost Done

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Motivation Fall Easy Painting Abstract Abstraction Abstract Painting Pastiche

Author:Joe Bradley

“Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.”

Knows Writing Book Play Easy Struggle Painting Projects Paint

Author:Antony Sher

“Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.”

Art Easy Deals Practice Study Painting Tasks Intelligence Analysis Practice Makes Perfect Easy Tasks

Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

“I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.”

Different Enough Artist Easy History Style Painting Serious Periods Pages Training Add Historical Contribution Making History

Author:Liu Dan

“The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.”

Way Easy Waiting Painting Planning Beach Laziness Derelict

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.”

Way Want Needs Wells Easy Painting Tables Income Fats Extras Roof

Book:The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel

Source: The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel

“If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Wells Littles Different Song Easy Sleep Cutting Painting Findings Labor Ears Drinking Phones Beer Different Ways Over It Spells Rude Few Words Thankless Antenna

Author:Tom Waits

“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.”

Knows Easy Difficult Painting

Author:Edgar Degas

“Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.”

Knows Needs Sometimes Done Easy Painting Skills Starting Painter Finishing Finishing It

Author:Elizabeth Neel

“I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.”

Thinking Film Easy Painting Listening Exciting Architecture Time Travel Realised Live In The Present Traveller Playing Music

Author:Jools Holland