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Charles Hawthorne - From the Accidents category:
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Accidents category:
It may have been accidental but you knew enough to let this alone. The intelligent painter is always making use of accidents. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Aging category:
When a man is sixty or seventy, he may be able to do a thing and the whole world rejoices. You can't begin too early, for this is not a thing of a month or a day. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Attitude category:
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. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Beauty category:
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. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Beauty category:
Anything under the sun is beautiful of you have the vision - it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Beginning category:
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. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Colour category:
Each day has its own individuality of color. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Colour category:
Put variety in white. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Colour category:
See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Composition category:
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. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Construction category:
Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Drawing category:
A sketch has charm because of its truth – not because it is unfinished. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Education category:
Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Emotion category:
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. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Finishing category:
Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Freedom category:
Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Fun category:
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. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Future category:
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. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Growth category:
In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Humility category:
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. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Impressionism category:
Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Interest category:
Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Materials category:
Swing a bigger brush – you don't know what you're missing. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Painting category:
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. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Seeing category:
Paint what you see, not what you know. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Shock category:
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. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Simplicity category:
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Simplicity category:
To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Subject category:
The successful painter is continually painting still life. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Subject category:
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. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Subject category:
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Success category:
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Teaching category:
We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Thinking category:
Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Vision category:
The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Work category:
Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind. (Charles Hawthorne)
Charles Hawthorne - From the Worry category:
-on William Merritt Chase...
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.' (Charles Hawthorne)
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