Quotes from Charles Webster Hawthorne

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.

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

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

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.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

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

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

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

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.

Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.

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