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Charles Webster Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899.

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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.

Big, Bigs, Little Things, Littles, Make, Subject

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

Impulsive, Look, Looks, Reasoned, Thinking, Too Much

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Education, Sensitive, Spend, Study, Things, Years

It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.

Hard, Important, Long, Realization, Relations, Simple

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

Down, First Impression, Firsts, Putting, Quickly, Realizing

The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.

Color, Fundamental, Fundamentals, Mechanics, Next, Thing

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Canvas, Edge, Going Out, Imagination, Lines, Make

See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.

Color, Daring, Ignorance, Mixed

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

Making, Say, Simplicity, Speech, Stop, Want

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

Look, Painter, Past, Squares, Success, Successful

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.

Aesthetic, Beautiful, Joy, Painting

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

Attitude, Canvas, Kind, Men, Way

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

Hardest, Simplicity, Things, World

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

Accidents, Doors, Foresee, Habit, Reason

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

Life, Painter, Painting, Successful

Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.

Future, Good, Keep, Mean, Promise, Say

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

Care, Close, Distance, Done, Foreground, Views

Paint what you see, not what you know.

Awe, Know, Paint, See, Vision

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc. , we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

Boats, Decidedly, Etc, Landscape, Men

Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.

Finish, Finishing, Make, Takes, Trying, Waiting

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