Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Webster Hawthorne
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Charles Webster Hawthorne.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.
Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.
If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.
Paint what you see, not what you know.
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.
Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.
The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.
Each day has its own individuality of color.
It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.
It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.
There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.
See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.
Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.
To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.
In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.
Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'
Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.
Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.
Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.
A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
Put variety in white.
Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures.
Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
The successful painter is continually painting still life.
Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.
Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.
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