Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
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Each day has its own individuality of color.
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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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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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Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
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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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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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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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The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.
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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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Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.
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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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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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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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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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A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
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Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.
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We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
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See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.
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Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.
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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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The successful painter is continually painting still life.
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In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
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To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.
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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.