E. J. Hughes Quotes

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• I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and…
• I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
• I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more…
• If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all…
• I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.
• It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.
• One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among…
• It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get…
• I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material…
• Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
• I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and…
• As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.
• It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
• When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it…
• It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.
• I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.
• Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and…
• It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating…
• I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is…
• I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.

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