Merely knowing your craft will never be enough to make a picture. If you ever amount to anything at all, it will be because you were true to that deep desire or ideal which made you seek artistic expression in… — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
Do not have an important dark and important light in the same picture they will destroy each other. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
