William Merritt Chase Quotes

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do... And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that...will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.