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. E. J. Hughes More Quotes by E. J. Hughes More Quotes From E. J. Hughes 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. E. J. Hughes worry sleep night It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting. E. J. Hughes design quality photography 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. E. J. Hughes black-and-white preparation cartoon 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. E. J. Hughes quality feels art 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. E. J. Hughes artist appreciation thinking 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. E. J. Hughes couple book art I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important. E. J. Hughes important artist teacher 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. E. J. Hughes bedroom-house light years The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery. E. J. Hughes stage style looks 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. E. J. Hughes pencils painting figures 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. E. J. Hughes time years thinking I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes. E. J. Hughes oil trying night My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph. E. J. Hughes painting understanding goal 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. E. J. Hughes perspective may helping It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters. E. J. Hughes nice would-be europe 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. E. J. Hughes trying appreciation art 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. E. J. Hughes cutting change mind I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography. E. J. Hughes illustration critics photography It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing. E. J. Hughes treading paint danger 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. E. J. Hughes more-time contracts painting
