Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Harvey Dunn

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Harvey Thomas Dunn NA was an American painter and teacher. He is best known for his prairie-intimate masterpiece, The Prairie is My Garden (1950). In this painting, a mother and her two children are out gathering flowers from the quintessential prairie of the Great Plains.

March 8, 1884 - November 29, 1952

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A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

Harvey Dunn

Do not have an important dark and important light in the same picture they will destroy each other.

Harvey Dunn

Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

Harvey Dunn

When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.

Harvey Dunn

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

Harvey Dunn

Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.

Harvey Dunn

If you think your picture needs something, take something out.

Harvey Dunn

Merely knowing your craft will never be enough to make a picture. If you ever amount to anything at all, it will be because you were true to that deep desire or ideal which made you seek artistic expression in pictures.

Harvey Dunn

A background can be painted in the same range of values as the foreground by reversing the light effect. In the shadow plane, paint the lights cool and the shadows warm, and in the sunlight plane, paint the lights warm and shadows cool.

Harvey Dunn

Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture.

Harvey Dunn

The character, position and weight of an object are in the edge.

Harvey Dunn

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

Harvey Dunn

If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.

Harvey Dunn

The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.

Harvey Dunn

You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

Harvey Dunn

To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value.

Harvey Dunn