Artist Quotes by Harvey Dunn

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

— Harvey Dunn

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

— Harvey Dunn

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

— Harvey Dunn

When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.

— Harvey Dunn

Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture.

— 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…

— Harvey Dunn

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

— Harvey Dunn

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…

— Harvey Dunn

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

— 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…

— 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

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

— 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

Merely knowing your craft will never be enough to make a picture. If you ever amount to anything at all, it will be because…

— Harvey Dunn

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

— Harvey Dunn