Hawthorne on Painting

• Mastery is a balance of form and color in the composition.
• Mastery is considered the creation of a richly orchestrated pictorial space in which form fusing with color turns into a new reality-the created painting.
• The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another-the fundamental thing.
• Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision.
• People are interested in the expression of beauty; something that makes them believe in the beauty and glory of human existence.
• He the artist must show people more-more than they already see and he must show them with so much sympathy and understanding that they will recognize it as if they themselves had seen the beauty and the glory.
• Better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big subject.
• Don't strain for a grand subject anything is the painters fodder.
• You must feel the beauty of something before you start.