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Art is difficult.

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

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.