E. J. Hughes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night.”
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“I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.”
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“Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.”
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“It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.”
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“I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.”
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“I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.”
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“At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.”
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“The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.”
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“The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.”
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“It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.”
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“Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.”
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“I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.”
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“My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.”
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“It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.”
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“When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.”
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“It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.”
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“I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations.”
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“I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.”
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“I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.”
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“If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.”
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“I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.”
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“It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.”
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“One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.”
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“It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.”
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“I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.”
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“Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.”
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“I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing.”
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“As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.”
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“One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.”
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