Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it. Howard Pyle More Quotes by Howard Pyle More Quotes From Howard Pyle Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions. Howard Pyle suggestionsironcriticism Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture. Howard Pyle subjectstrying 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 airsummeryears 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 colorlightfall 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 sightpastart Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand. Howard Pyle sweetgivinghands 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. Howard Pyle would-betwoideas When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff. Howard Pyle wellsgrainflood I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture. Howard Pyle old-buildingscakemorning 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 forgottentreefall I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration. Howard Pyle illustrationanalysisinspiration I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures. Howard Pyle who-caresgenerositylectures I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York. Howard Pyle new-yorkartschool I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them. Howard Pyle artistadvicegiving
