I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is...… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
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