Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

Charles Webster Hawthorne

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• As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Pretty
  • Always
  • Never

• Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Walking

• I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Favourite

• If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Pretty
  • Story
  • Look

• Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Book
  • Place

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live
  • Man
  • Employment

• I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Myself
  • See
  • Someone

• The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Perfect
  • Most
  • Which

• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • American
  • Reality
  • Same

• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Know
  • Fascinating

• You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Mystery

• 'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Clever

• I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.

  

  John Mayer
  • People
  • Comedy

• Why have your eyes gone into their own room?

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Why
  • Eyes

• When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

  

  James Whitcomb Riley
  • Bird

• For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Work

• This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

  

  Jacques Delors
  • Distance

• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

  

  George Eliot
  • Distance
  • Human Beings
  • Inventor

• Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Me

• They say that love is powerful as cough syrup and Styrofoam. All I know is I fell asleep and woke up in that Monte Carlo With the ugly Kardashian... Lamar, oh, sorry. Yo, we done both set the bar low.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Powerful
  • Rap
  • Sorry

• Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Distance
  • Paint
  • Close Up