Howard Pyle quotes

Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand. (Howard Pyle)
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.
Howard Pyle
Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.
Howard Pyle
He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
Howard Pyle
I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.
Howard Pyle
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.
Howard Pyle
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.
Howard Pyle
Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.
Howard Pyle
Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it.
Howard Pyle
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.
Howard Pyle
The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture. (Howard Pyle)
Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.
Howard Pyle
What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.
Howard Pyle
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.
Howard Pyle
Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.
Howard Pyle
Paint ideas, paint thought.
Howard Pyle
The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy.
Howard Pyle
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.
Howard Pyle
Talk about life - but in your own way.
Howard Pyle
I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.
Howard Pyle
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. (Howard Pyle)
I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.
Howard Pyle
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.
Howard Pyle
I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.
Howard Pyle
Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.
Howard Pyle