Occupation: Artist Birth: March 31, 1824 Death: September 8, 1879
Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement o….
Believe that time is going to help you do what you want..
Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work..
Inspiration is nothing without work..
You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!.
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. ….
Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture..
Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may ….
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite the….
Imagination comes in after we have experience..
Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. Ther….
Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. ….
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very si….
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing t….
It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You….
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had ….
Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression….
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting..
You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples..
How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident..
Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!.