Harvey Dunn Quotes
When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.
If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.
If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.
When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.
A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.
Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.
You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.
Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.
To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value.
Do not have an important dark and important light in the same picture they will destroy each other.