Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

- Howard Pyle

The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture.

- Howard Pyle

It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by t…

- Howard Pyle

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

- Howard Pyle

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

- Howard Pyle

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

- Howard Pyle

Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it.

- Howard Pyle

You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fa…

- Howard Pyle

I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the s…

- Howard Pyle