Best 35 quotes of Charles Webster Hawthorne on MyQuotes

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

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.

If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.

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.

Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

Paint what you see, not what you know.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Put variety in white.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.

Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.

The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.

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.

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.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures.

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.

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.

We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.