Howard Pyle Quotes

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• Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

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  Heart

  Howard Pyle (2006). “Pirates, Patriots, and Princesses: The Art of Howard Pyle”, p.66, Courier Dover Publications

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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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  Memories, Childhood, Stories

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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

  Howard Pyle, Howard P. Brokaw (1998). “History and Romance: Works by Howard Pyle from the Brokaw Family Collection : the Exhibition, April 4 Through May 17, 1998, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania”

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

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  Mind, Projects, Subjects

  Howard Pyle, Newell Convers Wyeth, John Edward Dell, Walt Reed (2000). “Visions of adventure: N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine artists”, Watson-Guptill

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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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• 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

  Howard Pyle (2012). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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

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  World, Students

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

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  Mean, Light, Color

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

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  Eggs, Done, Cracked

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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, Self, Noble Man

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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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  Laughter, Thinking, Land

  Howard Pyle (2015). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.7, First Avenue Editions

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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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• Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.

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  Trying, Subjects

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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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  Fall, Color, Light

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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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• Paint ideas, paint thought.

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  Ideas, Paint

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• The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy.

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  Joy, Suffering, Economy

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• I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

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  Dream, One Day, Wonderland

  Howard Pyle, Katharine Pyle (1887). “The Wonder Clock Or, Four and Twenty Marvelous Tales”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Talk about life - but in your own way.

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  Communication, Way

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• Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.

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  Sweet, Hands, Giving

  Howard Pyle (1998). “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

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  Flood, Grain, Wells

  Howard Pyle (2015). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.29, Booklassic

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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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  Summer, Air, Years

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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, Teaching, Kind

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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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  Inspiration, Illustration, Analysis

  Howard Pyle, Howard P. Brokaw (1998). “History and Romance: Works by Howard Pyle from the Brokaw Family Collection : the Exhibition, April 4 Through May 17, 1998, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania”

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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, Tree, Forgotten

  Howard Pyle (2016). “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.148, Lulu.com

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