Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
Top 25 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Webster Hawthorne
Charles Webster Hawthorne Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.
Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.
Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.