It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Education Copy Share Image
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Dinner Copy Share Image
To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Hardest Copy Share Image
Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Alive Copy Share Image
A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Charm Copy Share Image
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Care Copy Share Image
In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Art Copy Share Image
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Beautiful Copy Share Image
Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Ifs Copy Share Image
By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Bigs Copy Share Image
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Accidents Copy Share Image
We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Education Copy Share Image
The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Color Copy Share Image
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Behinds Copy Share Image
Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Ask me Copy Share Image
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Doors Copy Share Image
Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Better person Copy Share Image
Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly. — Charles Webster Hawthorne First impression Copy Share Image
The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Attitude Copy Share Image
Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Freedom Copy Share Image
The successful painter is continually painting still life. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Life Copy Share Image
See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Can do Copy Share Image
