Quotes by Howard Pyle - Page 1

Paint ideas, paint thought.
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Ideas
Paint
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Talk about life - but in your own way.
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Communication
Way
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The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy.
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Economy
Joy
Suffering
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What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.
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Cracked
Done
Eggs
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I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.
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Dream
One Day
Wonderland
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Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.
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When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.
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Flood
Grain
Wells
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Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it.
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Mind
Projects
Subjects
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Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.
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Giving
Hands
Sweet
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Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.
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Subjects
Trying
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A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.
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Drifting
Interesting
Way
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Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.
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Criticism
Iron
Suggestions
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I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.
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Teaching
Thinking
Unusual
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I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures.
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Generosity
Lectures
Who Cares
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I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.
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Giving
Lessons
Masters
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The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture.
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Students
World
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Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.
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Art
Expression
Soul
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I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.
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Art
New York
School
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My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.
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Art
Kind
Teaching
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I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.
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Advice
Artist
Giving
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He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
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Moon
Mud
Pennies
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Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.
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Color
Light
Mean
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(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.
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Darkness
Gleam
Littles
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I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.
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Analysis
Illustration
Inspiration
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An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.
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Men
Body
Yield
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So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.
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Fall
Forgotten
Tree
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For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.
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Art
Past
Sight
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All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.
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Air
Summer
Years
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If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be really too weak to consider at all and the human interest would be entirely lost.
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Ideas
Two
Would Be
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The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.
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Childhood
Memories
Stories
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You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for the color and tone and texture... how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.
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Color
Fall
Light
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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 shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.
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Morning
Cake
Old Buildings
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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 Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.
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Land
Laughter
Thinking
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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 thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise.' Truly, one may not do as nobly one's self, but in the striving one is better.
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Men
Noble Man
Self
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Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good work unless you feel in tile mood for it. That is all nonsense. I frequently have to force myself to make a start in the morning; but after a short while I find I can work. Only hard and regular work will bring success.
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Morning
Believe
Ideas
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