"Try to do ugly things so that you……" — Charles Webster Hawthorne
"Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful."
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36 Quotes by Charles Webster Hawthorne
Charles Webster Hawthorne has 36 quotes on this site.
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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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It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots…
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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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