Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
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Each day has its own individuality of color.
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Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
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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.
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The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.
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Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.
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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.
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Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
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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.
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Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.
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We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
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Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.
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Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
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Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.
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In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
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Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.
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The successful painter is continually painting still life.
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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.
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Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
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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.
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Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.