Commonplace Quotes by William Merritt Chase

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

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

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

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

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

— William Merritt Chase

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

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

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

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

Design is everything.

— William Merritt Chase

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

My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

— William Merritt Chase