Howard Pyle Quotes
- Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.
- Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.
- The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture.
- When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.
- For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind,…
- Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good work unless you…
- The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy.
- If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be…
- I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.
- Talk about life - but in your own way.
- Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.
- I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.
- I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.
- I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures.
- I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.
- Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.
- I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.
- You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for…
- All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to…
- I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in…