Howard Pyle Quotes

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• Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it.
• Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.
• My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.
• I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.
• Paint ideas, paint thought.
• A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.
• An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded to a man before, and that without would or mark upon my…
• Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.
• The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is…
• He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
• So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves…
• It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales,…
• What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.
• You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and…
• (H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.

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