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“There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.”

People Education Trouble Painting Harder

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.”

Knows Giving Seems Trouble Painting Please Anxiety

Book:Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883

Source: Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883

“I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.”

Ifs Thinking Trouble Painting

Book:Lee Krasner

Source: Lee Krasner

“I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”

Knows Men May Book Whole Order Brain Creativity Trouble Dangerous Painting Criticism Safety Rate Bounds Dues Better Off Calves Ticklish

Author:Herman Melville