35 Quotes by Charles Webster Hawthorne

Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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