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

- Charles Webster Hawthorne

Paint what you see, not what you know.

- Charles Webster Hawthorne

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.

- Charles Webster Hawthorne

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

- 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.

- Charles Webster Hawthorne

Each day has its own individuality of color.

- Charles Webster Hawthorne

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 Webster Hawthorne

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

- Charles Webster Hawthorne

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

- Charles Webster Hawthorne