You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints. — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other… — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects… — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow. — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky. — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished. — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at… — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear. — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you… — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that… — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it. — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
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