35 Quotes by Charles Webster Hawthorne

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

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

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

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

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

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.

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.

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.’

Put variety in white.