All William Merritt Chase Quotes
- Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other… Accommodation
- Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things… Aging
- My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven. Europe
- Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear. Association
- I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky. Believe
- You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of… Color
- Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow. Always Tomorrow
- Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are… Best
- Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished. Commonplace
- It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it. Axe
- Design is everything. Design
- I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me,… Asked
- Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the… Beneath