--- title: "4 Harold Speed Quotes - Famous Painter (The practice & science of drawing)" description: "Harold Speed was an English painter in oil and watercolour of portraits, figures and historical subjects. He also wrote instructional books for artists ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b139/author-george-schaller-40538.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Harold Speed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b139/author-george-schaller-40538.jpg) # Harold Speed (1872–1957) Painter United Kingdom **4** quotes in **55** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Harold Speed was a painter from the United Kingdom, best known for *The practice & science of drawing*. ## Quick Facts About Harold Speed Born February 11, 1872 Died March 20, 1957 Nationality United Kingdom Profession Painter Notable works The practice & science of drawing ## About Harold Speed Harold Speed was an English painter in oil and watercolour of portraits, figures and historical subjects. He also wrote instructional books for artists that remain in print. ## Quotes by Harold Speed > [“The search for this inner truth is the search for beauty. People whose vision does not penetrate beyond the narrow limits of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-speed/the-search-for-this-inner-truth-is-the-search-for-beauty-people-whose/) [Harold Speed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-speed/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a2/harold-speed-70072_art_the-search-for-this-inner-truth-is-the-s_1284895.jpg) > [The object of your training in drawing should be to develop to the uttermost the observation of form and all that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-speed/the-object-of-your-training-in-drawing-should-be-to-develop-to-the/) [Harold Speed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-speed/) [Accord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accord/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbb/harold-speed-70072_accord_the-object-of-your-training-in-drawing-s_1594713.jpg) > [Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-speed/every-obstacle-must-at-first-be-put-in-the-path-of-the-aspiring/) [Harold Speed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-speed/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/075/harold-speed-70072_art_every-obstacle-must-at-first-be-put-in-t_2847352.jpg) > [Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-speed/whereas-formerly-before-the-advent-of-machinery-the-commonest-article/) [Harold Speed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-speed/) [Advent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40a/harold-speed-70072_advent_whereas-formerly-before-the-advent-of-ma_3138827.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-speed/#itemlist", "name": "Harold Speed Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The search for this inner truth is the search for beauty. People whose vision does not penetrate beyond the narrow limits of the commonplace, and to whom a cabbage is but a vulgar vegetable, are surprised if they see a beautiful picture painted of one, and say that the artist has idealised it, meaning that he has consciously altered its appearance on some idealistic formula; whereas he has probably only honestly given expression to a truer, deeper vision than they had been aware of. The commonplace is not the true, but only the shallow, view of things. [...] Our moments of peace are, I think, always associated with some form of beauty, of this spark of harmony within corresponding with some infinite source without. [...]. In moments of beauty (for beauty is, strictly speaking, a state of mind rather than an attribute of certain objects [...]) we seem to get a glimpse of this deeper truth behind the things of sense. 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