"It is so hard and long before a……" — Charles Webster Hawthorne
"It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting."
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Charles Webster Hawthorne
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36 Quotes by Charles Webster Hawthorne
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Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't…
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The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what…
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Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes…
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Each day has its own individuality of color.
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Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of…
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Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the…
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Put variety in white.
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See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.
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By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge.…
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Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.
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A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
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Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.
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