Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
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If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
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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.'
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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.
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The successful painter is continually painting still life.
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Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
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Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
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The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures.
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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.
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Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.
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Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
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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.
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Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.
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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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Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
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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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See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.
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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.
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Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.
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Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.
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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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In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
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To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.
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Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.
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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.
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Paint what you see, not what you know.
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Put variety in white.
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We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
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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 ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.
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A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
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Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.
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Charles Webster Hawthorne
- Born: January 8, 1872
- Died: November 29, 1930
- Occupation: Artist
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