It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.

- E. J. Hughes

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

- E. J. Hughes

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

- E. J. Hughes

When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it hel…

- E. J. Hughes

I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realisti…

- E. J. Hughes

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

- E. J. Hughes

Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, …

- E. J. Hughes

As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.

- E. J. Hughes

I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanic…

- E. J. Hughes